# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' on # the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must make # exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also customary to # leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler--------------------------------------------------------| nbd: nbd (Network Block Device TCP version) nbd: nbd: With NBD you can access block device on remote host just as it was in nbd: your local /dev. It works with companion with the kernel nbd driver and nbd: consists of a server and a client. Communication between client and nbd: server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client program this is nbd: hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to a block device nbd: special file such as /dev/nd0. nbd: nbd: Homepage: http://nbd.sourceforge.net/ nbd: