Re: [nottingham] /dev devices that are actually network block devices.

From: Alex Walker (alex@x3ja.co.uk)
Date: Fri 03 May 2002 - 20:44:01 BST


On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 03:15:50PM +0100, Lee wrote:
> I remember seeing recently a kernel enhancement were a block or
> character device is /dev could be setup to be a network
> block/character device on another networked machine.

I think you mean Network Block Device in the kernel. It's under "Block
devices" in your kernel config.

> can anyone remember the package name? or even how well it works?

I wanted to use it to give raw access to a DVD drive, but it failed with
"device too large". That's the only experience I have had with it.

HTH

Alex

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