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Re: [Nbd] [PATCH 1/3] nbd: support FLUSH requests



On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 19:06 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 12/02/2013 18:37, Alex Bligh ha scritto:
> > For my education, why remove the FUA stuff?
> 
> Because I had no way to test it.
> 
> >>> > > Hmmm... the underlying storage could be md/dm RAIDs in which case FUA
> >>> > > should be cheaper than FLUSH.
> >> > 
> >> > If someone ever wrote a virtio-blk backend that sits directly ontop
> >> > of the Linux block layer that would be true.
> > In this case we don't know what the backend is sitting on top of
> > a-priori. It might be the current nbd server code, but it might
> > not be.
> 
> Do you know of any other NBD server than the "official" one and qemu-nbd?

Not used 'in production' (for now...), but yeah:
https://github.com/NicolasT/nbd

Nicolas




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