Re: nbd vs. failing HDDs (was Re: Status)
Hi Thorsten,
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 05:10:45PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Dixi quod…
>
> >I’d really appreciate if someone (with either cowbuilder or
> >sbuild, preferably buildd/wanna-build) could upload X-rela‐
>
> Wouter, how does nbd perform?
Fairly okay.
There's some performance issues that I need to work on, but these are
unlikely to be noticeable unless you're running nbd-server for a whole
classroom of fairly modern x86 machines, or some such. And then still.
I doubt m68k machines will slow down because of NBD. The very first NBD
installation that I did was on quickstep, back when its SCSI driver was
still rather crap. It was faster over NBD than it was to local disk.
Running Debian/m68k was the reason why I started doing NBD in the first
place :-)
> Do you think a root-on-nbd sy‐ stem could help with the issue of dead
> old hard discs on the older buildds? (I know some OpenBSD developers
> use NFS, but, it’s known as Nightmare File System not without reason,
> so I thought to ask whether NBD would be suitable.)
In my opinion, it's definitely a good idea.
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