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diff --git a/network/nbd/README b/network/nbd/README index 18f1ebcb931aa..36d4f946df497 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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