openSUSE 11.0
Package Descriptions
nbd
Network Block Device Server and Client Utilities
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.
Except for packages subject to a commercial license, the license identified below is the license designated by the open source project.
| Version: | 2.9.9 |
|---|---|
| Release: | 41.1 |
| Medium: | DVD1 |
| Path: | /suse/i586/nbd-2.9.9-41.1.i586.rpm |
| Group: | Productivity/Networking/Other |
| License: | GPL v2 or later |
| Size: | 57 KB |
| Homepage: | http://nbd.sourceforge.net/ |
File list
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3935 Jun 6 23:25 /etc/init.d/nbd-server drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 6 23:25 /etc/nbd-server -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 6 23:25 /etc/nbd-server/allow -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 6 23:25 /etc/nbd-server/config -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 487 Jun 6 23:25 /etc/nbd-server/config.example -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31072 Jun 6 23:25 /usr/bin/nbd-server lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22 Jun 6 23:25 /usr/bin/rcnbd-server -> /etc/init.d/nbd-server -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14532 Jun 6 23:25 /usr/sbin/nbd-client drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 6 23:25 /usr/share/doc/packages/nbd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4172 Jun 6 23:24 /usr/share/doc/packages/nbd/README -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2849 Jun 6 23:25 /usr/share/man/man1/nbd-server.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1506 Jun 6 23:25 /usr/share/man/man8/nbd-client.8.gz