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diff --git a/network/nbd/README b/network/nbd/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..18f1ebcb931a --- /dev/null +++ b/network/nbd/README @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +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. + +NBD kernel driver location: Device Drivers -> Block devices -> Network block +device support The kernel driver needs only to be compiled on client side. |