Re: [ILUG] Network Block Devices?

From: Niall O Broin (niall at domain linux.ie)
Date: Mon 13 Aug 2001 - 16:54:54 IST


On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 02:52:50PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Niall O Broin wrote:
>
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> > Memory usage of an NFS server.
>
> ... is miniscule.

Even in the context of a box which has 16M ? (Yeah, I just fired it up on my
box - it's quite small alright). But actually in the context of what John
wants, NFS is not really a solution. nbd will work much better, because then
you can use floppies with whatever filesystem you want.

Niall



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