Dependency of binutils-2.17.50.0.5-21.5.src.rpm

Name: nbd

Project: SLE_10

Repository: oss

Title: Network Block Device Server and Client Utilities

Description:
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.



Authors:
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Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>

Version: 2.8.3

Release: 15.2

Architecture: i586

Size: 40.4 KB

Build Time: 2006-06-16 16:51:01 +0200 (about 18 years ago)