Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765359AbYBBQ5x (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:57:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751258AbYBBQ5r (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:57:47 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:50023 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751082AbYBBQ5q (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:57:46 -0500 Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 17:57:45 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: devzero@web.de cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Laurent.Vivier@bull.net, pavel@ucw.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow NBD to be used locally In-Reply-To: <141208903@web.de> Message-ID: References: <141208903@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 936 Lines: 25 On Feb 2 2008 15:40, devzero@web.de wrote: > >>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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/