Network Block Device Server and Client Utilities

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This package contains nbd-server. It is the server backend for the nbd
network block device driver that's in the Linux kernel.

nbd can be used to have a filesystem stored on another machine. It does
provide a block device, not a file system; so unless you put a
clustering filesystem on top of it, you can't access it simultaneously
from more than one client. Use NFS or a real cluster FS (such as
ocfs2) if you want to do this. nbd-server can export a file (which may
contain a filesystem image) or a partition. Swapping over nbd is
possible as well, though it's said not to be safe against OOM and
should not be used for that case. nbd-server also has a copy-on-write
mode where changes are saved to a separate file and thrown away when
the connection closes.

The package also contains the nbd-client tools, which you need to
configure the nbd devices on the client side.

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Source Files
Filename Size Changed
0001_fix_setgroup.patch 0000001106 1.08 KB
config.example 0000001351 1.32 KB
nbd-3.24.tar.xz 0000556928 544 KB
nbd-client.service 0000000259 259 Bytes
nbd-server.service 0000000342 342 Bytes
nbd-server.sysconfig 0000000050 50 Bytes
nbd.changes 0000023282 22.7 KB
nbd.spec 0000005070 4.95 KB
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Thomas Leroy's avatar Thomas Leroy (tleroy) committed (revision 1)
Set link to nbd.23733 via maintenance_release request
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