Bug#778919: unblock: nbd/1:3.8-3
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 09:35:04AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Yeah, I know nbd has to be specifically required/set up for that to be
> used at all. I probably should learn how to test that myself,
FYI, it's really not all that hard:
# create a 10G sparse file:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/nbd/file bs=1024 seek=10M count=0
# install nbd-server:
sudo apt-get install nbd-server
# debconf configuration should allow you to export the file you just
# created, but if that fails for some reason:
cat > /etc/nbd-server/conf.d/d-i-test.conf <<EOF
[d-i-test]
exportname = /srv/nbd/file
EOF
sudo /etc/init.d/nbd-server restart
# Make sure nbd-server can actually modify the file:
chown nbd:nbd /srv/nbd/file
The name of the export is the bit between [] (i.e., in this case,
"d-i-test").
That's all there is to it.
> but I have some other bugs to keep an eye on anyway, so probably
> better if you can spare some time on your own, at least for this
> particular occurrence.
Sure. At any rate, I tend to test it every once in a while, anyway, just
so I can make sure things continue working ;-)
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