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, again. I finally got it working. As Aaron suggested, it wasn't the 
fstab entry, but something else. The commands that I typed in my message were 
right. Had I actually typed them they probably would have worked, but I was 
relying on the init.d commands which use config files, i.e. /etc/nbd-server 
& /etc/nbd-client and I had set up the config files incorrectly.

In /etc/nbd-client there is the entry:

# Name of the first used nbd /dev-entry:
NBD_DEVICE[0]="/dev/nd0"

Originally I used NBD_DEVICE[0]="nd0" and, when I finally got around to 
reading the log files, figured out that was not working.

I knew it was going to be something simple & stupid, but _now_ I know how to 
do it, if anyone else needs help. :-)

cmr
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