nbdkit on FreeBSD

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Thu Jun 18 20:28:02 UTC 2020


> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 9:53 PM Rodney W. Grimes <
> freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> 
> > > Does anybody use nbdkit on FreeBSD?  It's a fancy NBD (Network Block
> > > Device) server.  It runs fine on FreeBSD, but there's no port.  If
> > anybody
> > > is interested, I'll make a port for it.  However, if I'm the only one
> > then
> > > I won't bother.
> > >
> > > https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/
> >
> > I am not sure if this is what I looked at, but I was looking
> > for a way to do old style sun "nd", and this looks to be 1/2
> > of that, in that I see a server, but no client for the kernel.
> >
> > I would be interested in NBD if we have both ends.
> >
> 
> There's lots of 'other ends' including qemu for this.

I specifically meant native FreeBSD kernel.

> This is really cool!
> 
> Warner

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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