Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Feb 2008 17:57:45 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Allow NBD to be used locally |
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On Feb 2 2008 15:40, devzero@web.de wrote: > >>In fact, VMware uses local nbd today for its vmware-loop helper >>utility, most likely because of the above-mentioned reasons. (Though >>it quite often hung last time I tried.) > >seems this will go away. recent vmware versions (e.g. server 2.0 >beta) have a fuse based replacement for that.
How will that work? Fuse makes up a filesystem - not helpful if you have a raw disk without a known fs to mount.
>>So what we have is non-linearity -- LBA 22 comes after LBA 40 -- loop >>does not deal with that. > >maybe dm-loop does? http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/DMLoop
This still does not account for compressed disk images, for example.
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