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- Lines: 14
- Date:
Thu Aug 5 14:34:01 1999
- Orig file:
v2.3.12/linux/Documentation/nbd.txt
- Orig date:
Thu Feb 26 11:01:24 1998
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.3.12/linux/Documentation/nbd.txt linux/Documentation/nbd.txt
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
means, that it works on my computer, and it worked on one of school
computers.
- What is it: With this compiled in the kernel, linux can use a remote
+ What is it: With this compiled in the kernel, Linux can use a remote
server as one of its block devices. So every time the client computer
wants to read /dev/nd0, it sends a request over TCP to the server, which
will reply with the data read. This can be used for stations with
- low-disk space (or even diskless - if you boot from floppy) to
+ low disk space (or even diskless - if you boot from floppy) to
borrow disk space from another computer. Unlike NFS, it is possible to
put any filesystem on it etc. It is impossible to use NBD as a root
filesystem, since it requires a user-level program to start. It also
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