Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm

[Cláudio Martins]

On Mon, 24 May 2010 14:56:29 +0300 Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 05/24/2010 02:42 PM, MORITA Kazutaka wrote:
> >
> >> The server would be local and talk over a unix domain socket, perhaps
> >> anonymous.
> >>
> >> nbd has other issues though, such as requiring a copy and no support for
> >> metadata operations such as snapshot and file size extension.
> >>
> >>      
> > Sorry, my explanation was unclear.  I'm not sure how running servers
> > on localhost can solve the problem.
> >    
> 
> The local server can convert from the local (nbd) protocol to the remote 
> (sheepdog, ceph) protocol.
> 

 Please note that this shouldn't be relevant to the block driver based
on ceph, as it does not use a local daemon -- it connects to the Object
Storage Devices directly over the network.

 Best regards

Cláudio