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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