Hi I'm often trying to loop-mount (actually with dmcrypt) remote (encrypted) filesystem image files. I often do this spontaneously, and I often already have a mount of the remote filesystem over sshfs, so I can access these image files over the sshfs mount and my "mounte" tool automatically takes care of the dmcrypt, thus it's a 1 step process for me to mount such image files over sshfs. But sshfs is slow (needless additional encryption) and sometimes not working reliably. NBD works reliably, but is a pain to setup: I need to configure and start a server process, start a client process with correct configuration, then choose the right nbd block file to mount. I'd like to look into improving that. Also, while at it, I'd hope to improve the security by offering some kind of challenge-response authentication. (I've written about the same thing in more length here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/09/msg01453.html)
If I succeed implementing that, NBD should be perfect to me, except that it would be nice if the client could try to reconnect if the connection fails. Ah, and it would be nice to somehow ensure that an image file is only served at most once for safety :). But I guess NBD is still the right way to look into, since the alternative ENBD isn't included in the mainstream kernel? What do you think? I'm currently using version 2.9.16 from Debian stable. Christian. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
