Re: nbdkit as a flexible alternative to loopback mounts

2018-09-10 Thread David Sterba
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 03:31:48PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 07:55:00PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/nbdkit-as-a-flexible-alternative-to-loopback-mounts/ > > > > This is a pretty cool writeup. I can vo

Re: nbdkit as a flexible alternative to loopback mounts

2018-09-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 07:55:00PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/nbdkit-as-a-flexible-alternative-to-loopback-mounts/ > > This is a pretty cool writeup. I can vouch Btrfs will format mount, > write to, scrub, and btrfs check works on an 8EiB (v

nbdkit as a flexible alternative to loopback mounts

2018-09-04 Thread Chris Murphy
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/nbdkit-as-a-flexible-alternative-to-loopback-mounts/ This is a pretty cool writeup. I can vouch Btrfs will format mount, write to, scrub, and btrfs check works on an 8EiB (virtual) disk. The one thing I thought might cause a problem is the ndb device has