Making the Most of NBD

Eric Blake (eblake @ redhat.com)
Richard W.M. Jones (rjones @ redhat.com)
16:45 Thursday October 31st, 2019

The Network Block Device (NBD) protocol dates back to Linux 2.1.55 in April 1997, pre-dating iSCSI as a means for block device access of remote storage.
In recent years, the protocol has seen a revival as virtualization scenarios have used and extended its features for a variety of tasks.