On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 09:35:04AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Yeah, I know nbd has to be specifically required/set up for that to be > used at all. I probably should learn how to test that myself,
FYI, it's really not all that hard: # create a 10G sparse file: dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/nbd/file bs=1024 seek=10M count=0 # install nbd-server: sudo apt-get install nbd-server # debconf configuration should allow you to export the file you just # created, but if that fails for some reason: cat > /etc/nbd-server/conf.d/d-i-test.conf <<EOF [d-i-test] exportname = /srv/nbd/file EOF sudo /etc/init.d/nbd-server restart # Make sure nbd-server can actually modify the file: chown nbd:nbd /srv/nbd/file The name of the export is the bit between [] (i.e., in this case, "d-i-test"). That's all there is to it. > but I have some other bugs to keep an eye on anyway, so probably > better if you can spare some time on your own, at least for this > particular occurrence. Sure. At any rate, I tend to test it every once in a while, anyway, just so I can make sure things continue working ;-) -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org