Re: FYI: A talk about using NBD as an alternative to loop device / loop mounting
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:51:17AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
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> This video of a talk that I did might be of interest to NBD users:
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> https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/nbdkit-fosdem-test-presentation/#content
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> Direct video link:
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> http://oirase.annexia.org/rwmj.wp.com/rjones-nbdkit-tech-talk-2018-11-19.mp4
Some comments:
- I think the recommendation to require nbd 3.18 might be a bit strong
;-) I agree that 3.17 is horribly broken (sorry 'bout that,
unfortunately my test suite didn't catch that), but older versions of
NBD should generally work (although perhaps with less features). I
would suggest you tell people instead to avoid 3.17 (or have them use
the -nonetlink option to work around the bug).
- You compare NBD against the loop device. It might be interesting to
note that the original implementation of the NBD driver in the kernel
was fired off by doing "cp loop.c nbd.c"... (at least that's what the
comments at the top of that file used to say, I wasn't there)
- I think the talk dives into technical minutiae fairly quickly; it
might be useful to have a bit more of an introduction on why nbd might
be a good idea.
It's a nice talk, I'd love to see it at FOSDEM (if I'm going to make it
there though, which might not be the case for personal reasons).
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