Re: [Nbd] history about nbd

[harryxiyou <harryxiyou@...17...>]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...> wrote:
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>>
>> Now, you and Paul mantain nbd. But i am not sure if you maintain the
>> user space including nbd-server.c and nbd-client.c, etc. And Paul maintains
>> nbd in Linux kernel space including drivers/block/nbd.c and include/linux/nbd.h.
>> You and Paul are mainly in charge of which parts. Cloud you please tell me
>> clearly. Thanks very much.
>
> As you say, Paul maintains the kernel bits, and I maintain the userspace
> bits.
>
> In case you're interested, here's a short overview of things that I
> pulled out of the commit logs:
> - 2003-07-13: last commit by Pavel Machek to the userspace code
> - 2003-10-27: release of nbd v2.6 (userspace parts), containing mainly
>  some compile fixes and bugfixes since the handover from Pavel
> - Early 2004: release of nbd v2.7
> - 2004-06-27: started using the GLib utilities library to add support
>  for things like hashtables, dynamic arrays, etc, without having to
>  write it myself
> - 2005-10-27: release of nbd v2.8, which saw a fairly major rewrite of
>  the internals to nbd-server (stopped using global variables to store
>  state, etc)
> - 2006-11-01: release of nbd v2.9, which featured a configuration file
>  and a test suite
> At that point, development slowed down somewhat, with still the
> occasional bugfix release and new feature here and there. What stands
> out from the period since then is this:
> - 2010-08-09: release of nbd v2.9.18, the first version that supports
>  named exports

So thanks for you and Paul's jobs. And i will join us to develop nbd.
I love this one ;-)



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Thanks
Harry Wei