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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Allow NBD to be used locally

    On Feb 2 2008 15:40, devzero@web.de wrote:
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    >>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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