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author | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2008-11-13 21:33:24 +0000 |
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committer | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2008-11-14 17:28:53 +0000 |
commit | 31c00fc15ebd35c1647775dbfc167a15d46657fd (patch) | |
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Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/.
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diff --git a/Documentation/nbd.txt b/Documentation/nbd.txt deleted file mode 100644 index aeb93ff..0000000 --- a/Documentation/nbd.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ - Network Block Device (TCP version) - - What is it: With this compiled in the kernel (or as a module), Linux - can use a remote server as one of its block devices. So every time - the client computer wants to read, e.g., /dev/nb0, it sends a - request over TCP to the server, which will reply with the data read. - This can be used for stations with low disk space (or even diskless - - if you boot from floppy) to borrow disk space from another computer. - Unlike NFS, it is possible to put any filesystem on it, etc. It should - even be possible to use NBD as a root filesystem (I've never tried), - but it requires a user-level program to be in the initrd to start. - It also allows you to run block-device in user land (making server - and client physically the same computer, communicating using loopback). - - Current state: It currently works. Network block device is stable. - I originally thought that it was impossible to swap over TCP. It - turned out not to be true - swapping over TCP now works and seems - to be deadlock-free, but it requires heavy patches into Linux's - network layer. - - For more information, or to download the nbd-client and nbd-server - tools, go to http://nbd.sf.net/. - - Howto: To setup nbd, you can simply do the following: - - First, serve a device or file from a remote server: - - nbd-server <port-number> <device-or-file-to-serve-to-client> - - e.g., - root@server1 # nbd-server 1234 /dev/sdb1 - - (serves sdb1 partition on TCP port 1234) - - Then, on the local (client) system: - - nbd-client <server-name-or-IP> <server-port-number> /dev/nb[0-n] - - e.g., - root@client1 # nbd-client server1 1234 /dev/nb0 - - (creates the nb0 device on client1) - - The nbd kernel module need only be installed on the client - system, as the nbd-server is completely in userspace. In fact, - the nbd-server has been successfully ported to other operating - systems, including Windows. |