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| author | Stu Miller <slackbuilds@go4it2day.com> | 2011-05-31 23:02:28 -0400 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2011-06-13 01:33:39 -0400 |
| commit | 2a398cb06beb891b8d5acf8174e550af808dbe98 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b8f9a4a3483766840fc4a5b56e6e71238d2be9d /network/nbd/README | |
| parent | c5137b75f202ae38907001d5e98f1a4d0b13d3c6 (diff) | |
network/nbd: Updated for version 2.9.21a.
Signed-off-by: dsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/network/nbd/README b/network/nbd/README index 18f1ebcb931a..36d4f946df49 100644 --- a/network/nbd/README +++ b/network/nbd/README @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ -With NBD you can access block device on remote host just as it was in your -local /dev. It works with companion with the kernel nbd driver and consists -of a server and a client. Communication between client and server works over -TCP/IP networking, but to the client program this is hidden: it looks like -a regular local file access to a block device special file such as /dev/nd0. +Network Block Devices (NBD) is used to access a remote block device on a local +machine over a TCP/IP network. Provided in this package are the userland apps +nbd-client and nbd-server. -NBD kernel driver location: Device Drivers -> Block devices -> Network block -device support The kernel driver needs only to be compiled on client side. +The nbd-server is used to export a block device over a TCP/IP network to a +remote client. It defaults to /etc/nbd-server/config for settings. +See man page nbd-server. + +The nbd-client is used to connect to the remote nbd-server block device over +a TCP/IP network. It requires the nbd kernel module provided by Slackware +which creates /dev/nbd0 through /dev/nbd15 for local use. +See man page nbd-client.
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