[Nbd] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Portable NBD server

[Pavel Machek <pavel@...28...>]

Hi!

> Apologies for the cross-post, but this is relevant to all three lists.
> Please don't cross-post followups (unless they're relevant to several
> lists); obey the Reply-To or reply to me directly.
> 
> The NBD server in nbd-2.7.1 from nbd.sourceforge.net doesn't compile on
> non-Linux hosts, even though the server doesn't do anything inherently
> nonportable.  So I wrote a new one that should work fine on any POSIX
> host with 'long long'.
> 
> I've successfully used it to recover log data on a dirty ext3 filesystem
> that ended up in an OpenBSD box.
> 
> I hope this proves useful to someone.

Well, you should have fixed the bugs and submit a patch, not
start your own branch...
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