2011-11-09 12:30:09 +01:00
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Network Block Devices (NBD) is used to access a remote block device on
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a local machine over a TCP/IP network. Provided in this package are the
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userland apps nbd-client and nbd-server.
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2010-05-11 22:54:58 +02:00
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2011-11-09 12:30:09 +01:00
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The nbd-server is used to export a block device over a TCP/IP network
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to a remote client. It defaults to /etc/nbd-server/config for settings.
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2011-06-01 05:02:28 +02:00
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See man page nbd-server.
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2011-11-09 12:30:09 +01:00
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The nbd-client is used to connect to the remote nbd-server block device
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over a TCP/IP network. It requires the nbd kernel module provided by
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Slackware which creates /dev/nbd0 through /dev/nbd15 for local use.
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See man page nbd-client.
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