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like WOW!Originally Posted by dhicks
"nbdsrvr
What is it?
NBD-Server is a program for sharing an image of a filesystem or a partition on your system with an Linux system over a network.
This nbd-server can run on a Microsoft Windows system"
nbdsrvr
It might work, it might not - that driver is (exactly!) 6 years old tomorrow. I'd also be careful about the command line you use - one typo and you tell it to use the wrong partition, which could be embarrassing. I'm waiting until we get around to reimaging our workstations until I give it a try. We'll see if it works or if there's too much networking traffic created in just mirroring files.
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David Hicks
I'm just trying it out but I'm confused over
"filename must be a disk-identifier. Something like: \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0
for the first phsyical(!) disk, \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 for the second
physical disk, etc. When using a physical disk, you can can enter a
partition-number. Default is partition 0.
For example.
nbdsrvr \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0 9000 0"
what/where are device IDs in winxp?
recently came accross a cluster TDB samba project and looking to play with it during summer
See CTDB
Anyone using this already?
The where: I expect they are listed in 'Device Manager', select properties for a given device and then look on the details tab - the drop down list gives things like Device ID, etc.
EDIT: Just downloaded and looking through the readme for ndbsrv and I'm not really sure if the 'disk-identifier' mentioned is the same as the Device IDs. Best be careful!
Last edited by Chillibear; 15th July 2009 at 11:38 PM.
dhicks (15th July 2009)
clearly we're not the only ones having these crazy ideas:
Virtual Large-Scale Disk System for PC-Room
SpringerLink - Book Chapter
cept you have to pay to read the whole thing
found this on technet
if I doMicrosoft Windows may report event messages in the event log for various hard disk device issues using the following syntax:
The device, \Device\Harddisk#\Partition #
orCode:c:\>nbdsrvr \bob\bob 9000 1 nbdsrvr v0.2 (c) 2003 by folkert@vanheusden.com connection made with 192.168.0.8 error opening file \bob\bob: 3 failed to close handle: 6
Code:c:\>nbdsrvr \\device\harddisk0 9000 1 nbdsrvr v0.2 (c) 2003 by folkert@vanheusden.com connection made with 192.168.0.8 error opening file \\device\harddisk0: 53 failed to close handle: 6
Last edited by browolf; 16th July 2009 at 09:05 AM.
There another distributed file-system called Tahoe. It's looks really good and pretty easy to setup.
More info here...
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/n...-the-cloud.ars
dhicks (4th August 2009)
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