[ANNOUNCE] Portable NBD server

[ANNOUNCE] Portable NBD server

[Andy Isaacson]

Apologies for the cross-post, but this is relevant to all three lists.
Please don't cross-post followups (unless they're relevant to several
lists); obey the Reply-To or reply to me directly.

The NBD server in nbd-2.7.1 from nbd.sourceforge.net doesn't compile on
non-Linux hosts, even though the server doesn't do anything inherently
nonportable.  So I wrote a new one that should work fine on any POSIX
host with 'long long'.

I've successfully used it to recover log data on a dirty ext3 filesystem
that ended up in an OpenBSD box.

I hope this proves useful to someone.

http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/nbd/nbdsvr-0.1.tar.gz
http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/nbd/

-andy

Re: [Nbd] [ANNOUNCE] Portable NBD server

[Wouter Verhelst]

Op di 13-07-2004, om 19:45 schreef Andy Isaacson:
> Apologies for the cross-post, but this is relevant to all three lists.
> Please don't cross-post followups (unless they're relevant to several
> lists); obey the Reply-To or reply to me directly.
> 
> The NBD server in nbd-2.7.1 from nbd.sourceforge.net doesn't compile on
> non-Linux hosts,

Actually, it does; it compiles and runs on (at least) FreeBSD and The
Hurd. If it doesn't compile, I'd be happy to learn about it, and will
(most likely) incorporate any patches that might be relevant; the
intention, in any case, is for it to compile on anything resembling GCC
and some C library (although I'm quite aware that it probably doesn't
reach that goal at the moment, mostly since I didn't test on anything
else than the above two platforms, and Linux).

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