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7 Better loopback mounts with NBD — <br/>
8 <small>Take your loopback mounts to the next level with nbdkit</small>
11 Richard W.M. Jones <br/>
12 <small>rjones @ redhat.com</small>
15 <b>Loopback devices</b> let you turn a raw file into a device.
16 <b>Loopback mounts</b> let you mount filesystems from a raw file.
17 <b>Network Block Device</b> with the <b>nbdkit</b> server takes
18 this concept to the next level, elegantly solving simple problems
19 like how to mount filesystems from a compressed file, but as we
20 shall see in this talk offering far, far more ...