On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:22:21PM +0800, harryxiyou wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:56 AM, harryxiyou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > NOTE: my nbd source code's version is nbd-2.9.15.tar.bz2.
That's fairly old...
> > 1, Why do we handle the
> >
> Sorry for sending the mail unfinished just now, okay, see following
> for the rest.
>
> 1, Why do we handle the 'serve->port == 0' in nbd-server.c
> particularly? I don't know
> the differences for 'port == 0'.
> 1889 if(serve) {
> 1890 serve->socket_family = AF_UNSPEC;
> 1891
> 1892 append_serve(serve, servers);
> 1893
> 1894 if (!(serve->port)) {
> 1895 CLIENT *client;
> 1896 #ifndef ISSERVER
> 1897 /* You really should define ISSERVER if
> you're going to use
> 1898 * inetd mode, but if you don't, closing
> stdout and stderr
> 1899 * (which inetd had connected to the
> client socket) will let it
> 1900 * work. */
> 1901 close(1);
If the specified port number is zero, we're running in inetd mode. This
means that nbd-server communicates over stdin and stdout, and inetd will
do the socket handling.
See 'man inetd' for a description of what inetd is.
> 2, Can you just describe the relationships among nbd.c in kernel as a module
> and nbd-client.c && nbd-server.c in our nbd package ?
The nbd.c in the kernel does the actual work on the client side;
nbd-client only sets up the connection and then hands off the socket
that it negotiated with the nbd-server to the in-kernel module.
> 3, Okay, now i have a nbd client and a nbd server. I just know nbd client can
> get disk space from nbd server but how server can get the exact datas which
> entered by user from nbd client?
Two options: either you use a loop-mount, or you set up an nbd-client
connection to localhost.
> 4, We have three functions in nbd-server.c like following.
> rawexpwrite(...)
> rawexpwrite_fully(...)
> expwrite(...)
> I am not sure if these functions write datas to client device or server?
> I just see datas in client but server.
'write' here means 'write to a file handle'. Depending on which file
handle we're talking about, this can be the client (if the socket) or
the server's backend store (if the file).
> 5, i have a nbd client and server. Now they have establish the
> nbd connections. Client just use /dev/nbd0. And format /dev/nbd0
> to ext3 FS. Then i mount it to /mnt/nbd0. I copy /root to /mnt/nbd0.
> Now how can i get the /root directory from the nbd server?
disconnect the client, connect it on the server, mount it there, tada.
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