Better loop mounts with NBD —
Take your loop mounts to the next level with nbdkit

Richard W.M. Jones
rjones @ redhat.com

Loop devices let you turn a raw file into a device. Loop mounts let you mount filesystems from a raw file. Network Block Device with the nbdkit server takes this concept to the next level, elegantly solving simple problems like how to mount filesystems from a compressed file, but as we shall see in this talk offering far, far more ...