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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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