Network Block Device

[Mike Reinehr]

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 09:25 am, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> > On the server side I have running: /bin/nbd-server 1077 /vg0/swlv
> >
> > On the client side, however, when I try running:
> >         /bin/nbd-client eljudnir 1077 /dev/nd0
> > /dev/nd0 /mnt/nd0 ext3 defaults,ro,nouser,noauto 0 0
>
> don't you need a nbdfs instead of ext3 in /etc/fstab (like smbfs)? When
> you use ext3, it's going to mount it as a local device.
>
> I knew nothing about nbd, though. Just speak from my experience with samba.

Man-wai,

Thanks! That may be the missing ingredient. I'll let you know how it works.

cmr
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