Re: Network Block Device

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Mike Reinehr <cmr@amsent.com> writes:

> This may not be an AMD64 question, but both systems involved are running 
> Debian AMD64, so ...
>
> Does anyone know how to get a network block device (nbd) working, or if it can 
> be gotten to work? This instructions are very straight forward, but I've been 
> fiddling with it all week long  and haven't yet been able to get it going.
>
> 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
>
> I get an fsck.ext3 error message when it attempts to mount the device. 
> The /etc/fstab entry is:
>
> /dev/nd0 /mnt/nd0 ext3 defaults,ro,nouser,noauto 0 0
>
> nbd is compiled as a module.
>
> Problems like this often turn out to be overlooking something quite simple, so 
> I'm ready to be humbled and/or humiliated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> cmr

Could it be the device just doesn't contain a sane ext3 fs?

I hope you don't have /vg0/swlv mounted on the server.

MfG
        Goswin