similar to: ANNOUNCE: nbdkit 1.6 - an NBD server toolkit with stable plugin API and permissive license

I’m pleased to announce the next stable release of nbdkit. NBD — Network Block Device — is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network. nbdkit is a toolkit for creating NBD servers. The key features are: * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic server. * Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit

I’m pleased to announce the next stable release of nbdkit. This release concentrates on numerous feature enhancements - see the release notes below. NBD — Network Block Device — is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network. nbdkit is a toolkit for creating NBD servers. The key features are: * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good

nbdkit is an NBD server toolkit with stable ABI and permissive license. "Non-traditional" disk images can be served to anything that can consume disk images over NBD (qemu, libguestfs, etc.) More information: https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit Source download: http://download.libguestfs.org/nbdkit/ I'm pleased to announce the first new release in over a year. New in this

NBD is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network. 'nbdkit' is a toolkit for creating NBD servers. The key features are: * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic server. * Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary libraries or included in proprietary code.

I’m pleased to announce the next stable release of nbdkit. This release concentrates on performance and fuzzing, along with numerous other enhancements (full list below). NBD — Network Block Device — is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network. nbdkit is a toolkit for creating NBD servers. The key features are: * Multithreaded NBD server written

I'm pleased to announce the release of nbdkit 1.18, a high performance plugin-based Network Block Device (NBD) server. Key features of nbdkit: * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic server. * Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary libraries or included in proprietary code. * Well-documented, simple

I'm pleased to announce the release of nbdkit 1.22, a high performance plugin-based Network Block Device (NBD) server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device Key features of nbdkit: * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic server. * Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary libraries or

On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 07:11:28PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote: > I posted this patch for vdsm, adding NBD APIs: > https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/96079/ Great stuff. What's the minimum version of oVirt which will have this feature and what's the approximate date when we can assume most users of oVirt will have this? I don't have time now to implement the rest but I filed an RFE bug

I'm pleased to announce the release of nbdkit 1.20, a high performance plugin-based Network Block Device (NBD) server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device Key features of nbdkit: * Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic server. * Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary libraries or

I'm pleased to announce the joint release of libnbd 1.0 and nbdkit 1.14. These are a high performance NBD client library and server. Key features of libnbd: * Synchronous API for ease of use. * Asynchronous API for writing non-blocking, multithreaded clients. You can mix both APIs freely. * High performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic library. * Well-documented, stable

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 4:28 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 03:40:43PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:58 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 02:39:44PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > > > > Can we use something like the file plugin?

Hi Eric: Here's the problem: We have a VMware VDDK file or snapshot. The virtual size of the snapshot is generally much larger than what's allocated. Copying the snapshot using: nbdkit vddk file=foo.vmdk --run 'qemu-img convert $nbd out' is therefore much slower than it could be. (In the real world version of this we're actually copying the source over the network, but

I posted this patch for vdsm, adding NBD APIs: https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/96079/ The main purpose of these APIs are enabling incremental restore, but they also enable a more efficient rhv-upload via NBD, and importing to thin disks, which is not possible with current solution. The same idea can work for KubeVirt or other targets, minimizing specific target code. Here is how rhv-upload can work

[Adding the mailing list address back] On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:44:38PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:16 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 06:00:52PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote: > > > 5. can_zero fails, not sure why (Maybe Richard knows more about this) > > > > > > nbdkit:

On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 03:40:43PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:58 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 02:39:44PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > > > Can we use something like the file plugin? thread pool of workers, > > > each keeping open vddk handle, and serving requests in parallel from >

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:58 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 02:39:44PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > > Can we use something like the file plugin? thread pool of workers, > > each keeping open vddk handle, and serving requests in parallel from > > the same nbd socket? > > Yes, but this isn't implemented in the

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:15 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > > [NB: Adding PUBLIC mailing list because this is upstream discussion] > > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 06:27:04PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 06:03:23PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 5:47 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>

On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 02:39:44PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > Can we use something like the file plugin? thread pool of workers, > each keeping open vddk handle, and serving requests in parallel from > the same nbd socket? Yes, but this isn't implemented in the plugins, it's implemented in the server. The server always uses a thread pool, but plugins can opt for more or less

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 1:39 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > > [Adding the mailing list address back] > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:44:38PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:16 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 06:00:52PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote: > >

I'm pleased to announce the releases of libnbd 1.2 and nbdkit 1.16. These are a high performance Network Block Device (NBD) client library and server. Key features of libnbd: * Synchronous API for ease of use. * Asynchronous API for writing non-blocking, multithreaded clients. You can mix both APIs freely. * High performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic library. *