On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Wouter, how does nbd perform? Do you think a root-on-nbd sy- stem could > help with the issue of dead old hard discs on the older buildds? I've successfully used NFS root and ATAoE root with Debian/68k. (The kernel has to be patched to use ATAoE root without initrd. I have a patch though I expect most people would use an initrd.) Performance is good on a NIC that uses DMA (SONIC in this case). Finn