Presentation Proposal: NBD

[David Miller]

I imaged my hard drive for a backup at an offsite location the other day. Later I was back at the location and thought wouldn't it be great if I could boot off this image over the network. Then I remembered that Linux can mount block devices over the network with NBD (network block device). So after a tiny bit of fiddling -- configuring an initramfs to set up the NBD as the root FS, I had booted the image over the network.

Anyone curious about NBD? I am thinking of doing a short presentation of some simple use cases and a more involved use case of running transient thin clients off of snapshotted lvm volumes served over the network.

[LinuxNative]

I would like to learn more about it. Sounds very interesting to me.

[Randy]

I don't have anything for March, yet... you're welcome to present this, if you like. Just let me know...

Thanks!

[LinuxNative]

What about my shadow puppets and the story of how Linux was born?

[David Miller]

Yeah I can have something prepared, probably since its in two days I just won't get to the thin client scenario.

But yeah, mark me down.

[Randy]

Will do... I was just about to post that this would be a general meeting and saw this thread had been updated. Thanks, David!

I've updated the web page, made the announcement, and posted the meeting info on the forum. If you need me to change anything, please let me know. I just used the basic information you had in the first post to cobble together the meeting topic.

Thanks, again!