···44 select CONNECTOR55 ---help---66 DST is a network block device storage, which can be used to organize77- exported storages on the remote nodes into the local block device.77+ exported storage on the remote nodes into the local block device.8899- DST works on top of any network media and protocol, it is just a matter99+ DST works on top of any network media and protocol; it is just a matter1010 of configuration utility to understand the correct addresses. The most1111- common example is TCP over IP allows to pass through firewalls and1212- created remote backup storage in the different datacenter. DST requires1111+ common example is TCP over IP, which allows to pass through firewalls and1212+ create remote backup storage in a different datacenter. DST requires1313 single port to be enabled on the exporting node and outgoing connections1414 on the local node.15151616- DST works with in-kernel client and server, which improves the performance1717- eliminating unneded data copies and allows not to depend on the version1616+ DST works with in-kernel client and server, which improves performance by1717+ eliminating unneded data copies and by not depending on the version1818 of the external IO components. It requires userspace configuration utility1919 though.2020···2323 may be lots of in-flight transactions. When remote host does not ack2424 the transaction it will be resent predefined number of times with specified2525 timeouts between them. All those parameters are configurable. Transactions2626- are marked as failed after all resends completed unsuccessfully, having2626+ are marked as failed after all resends complete unsuccessfully; having2727 long enough resend timeout and/or large number of resends allows not to2828 return error to the higher (FS usually) layer in case of short network2929 problems or remote node outages. In case of network RAID setup this means···38383939 DST may fully encrypt the data channel in case of untrusted channel and implement4040 strong checksum of the transferred data. It is possible to configure algorithms4141- and crypto keys, they should match on both sides of the network channel.4141+ and crypto keys; they should match on both sides of the network channel.4242 Crypto processing does not introduce noticeble performance overhead, since DST4343 uses configurable pool of threads to perform crypto processing.4444···6363 bool "DST debug"6464 depends on DST6565 ---help---6666- This option will turn HEAVY debugging of the DST.6666+ This option will enable HEAVY debugging of the DST.6767 Turn it on ONLY if you have to debug some really obscure problem.