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Re: [Nbd] [ANNOUNCE] Portable NBD server



On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 11:31:11PM -0500, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:55:36PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > I fully agree that nbd-server needs quite a lot of work, and have
> > outlined what I plan to do with it[0]. Maybe your ideas aren't even far
> > from mine, in which case help (patches, ideas, suggestions, ...) would
> > be welcome. Forks aren't, though, because they tend to discourage
> > cooperation rather than encourage it. And hey, if you already saw what I
> > plan to do but think I'm braindead, tell me about it.
> > 
> > [0] http://nbd.sf.net/roadmap.html
> 
> In general I like the roadmap, and don't think you're braindead.

Good :-)

> I want to prototype some stuff in my own tree before trying to fit it
> into the main nbd tree.

That makes sense.

> I'm sorry that you think I'm promulgating a fork.

Well. Maybe I overreacted a bit, but you get the point, no?

> I prefer to think of it as a research prototype; I want to keep my
> code ASAP (as simple as possible) and try out a couple of performance
> ideas.  If they prove to be useful I don't see any reason not to redo
> it in the main nbd tree.

OK.

> Of course the situation isn't the same, but consider Apache versus
> thttpd.  There's nothing wrong with having multiple implementations that
> speak the same protocol.

Nah, of course not. But it'd be a shame to have multiple ok-working
implementations instead of one great and fast thing :-)

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