Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1495 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 21:57:41 Curt Bryson (GMail) wrote:
> I haven't worked with this Kernel Device in well over 4 years, but check
> out the "Network Block Device" (NBD) - I originally experimented with
> mounting and taking forensically-sound partition images over the network
> with this kernel device, but I dunno if it will suit your particular
> need.
>
> the NBD and ENBD (Enhanced Network Block Device) were originally
> intended to allow for creating a RAID across diverse objects (files,
> partitions, disks, etc) across a network.

The more modern alternative would be iSCSI, which can export partitions over 
the network

Anders
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