On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 05:56:13PM +0100, Wim Muskee wrote: > 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.
Very weird, yes. > >> 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. I don't have much experience with dracut. I know it exists and that it supports NBD, but that's about it. I'll try and set up a testing environment soon so I can try to reproduce and debug this. Will get back to you after that. -- 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
