Subj : Network block device support, how useful/practical is it?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : thegalorin
Date : Wed Aug 25 2004 07:18 am

I've got a small network here with only one CD burner.  If I want to
use it, I'll ssh into the machine anad use whatever app to burn that
way.  Other than the implications of swapaping cd's, etc. is it
practical to use the nbd support on clients and share the burner that
way?

What benefits/drawbacks are there to this approach compared to CODA,
NFS, etc?
Is there anything about nbd that isn't obvious from the docs included
in the kernel, and it's sourceforge page?

Mr. Galorin

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