Re: questions about block device access

From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Date: Sun Feb 20 2000 - 09:50:14 EST

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a9504915 <a9504915@graduate.hku.hk> said:

> Hello, I am writing a block device driver to redirect all I/O requests to
> a remote hard disk at another node. The remote hd seems "attached"
> locally. The process accessing the driver (i.e. the client) has to
> communicate with a remote server process through sockets.

Yep. It's called Network Block Device (nbd) in the kernel.

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