On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:45:39PM +0100, Wim Muskee wrote: >> I'm experiencing an odd nbd-client problem, I can't connect to a named >> export from inside an initramfs. >> >> On the server runs nbd-server (3.0) as a service, the >> /etc/nbd-server/config is as follows: >> [generic] >> [ltsp] >> exportname = /opt/ltsp-images/ltsp-dev-i686.img >> virtstyle = none >> >> The client initramfs contains an nbd-client from a nbd-3.0 install. It >> uses the 3.0.6 kernel (x86). The command it uses is: >> nbd-client 192.168.0.1 -N ltsp /dev/nbd0 >> >> When it tries to connect, something fails in the negotiation: >> nbd: registrered device at major 43 >> Negotiation: ..size= 4229768MBError: Exported device is too big for > > That claims it's a 4TiB export. That can't be right. > > What's the actual size of the file you're trying to export? > The actual size is about 350Mb. Perhaps it miscalculates the size under certain conditions. But still it's weird because it can connect when using port based exports.
>> me. Get 64-bit machine :-( >> >> When I boot the client normally, I can do the same command, and >> connect to the image without problems. > > That's even stranger. I'd think that if it doesn't work in initramfs, it > wouldn't work in the normal system, either. > > Which distribution is this? > Gentoo, using Dracut as the initramfs builder. >> Also, when I run an export from the commandline like: >> nbd-server 2000 /opt/ltsp-images/ltsp-dev-i686.img >> >> The connection works, the following command was used: >> nbd-client 192.168.0.1 2000 /dev/nbd0 >> >> Is this an NBD problem, or an initramfs problem? > > Not sure yet. > > -- > The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by > the following formula: > > pi zz a ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
