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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:13:16 -0000 On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 9:53 PM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-rwg@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. > > > -Alan > -- > Rod Grimes > rgrimes@freebsd.org In fact, Ryan Moeller wrote a ggate-based client for FreeBSD. I haven't tried it myself. The main motivation is to use it with Scaleway, a cloud hosting company that offers arm64 servers, but they need to boot from NBD. https://github.com/freqlabs/nbd-client -Alan