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On 3/25/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 25 March 2007, "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote |
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> about '[gentoo-user] Questions about gparted': |
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> > 1) It complains about being unable to open /dev/nbd1 throught (sic) |
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> > /dev/nbd16; I have no idea what these are. |
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> Block devices exposed by the 'nbd' module. The nbd module allows block |
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> devices to be exported and imported over the network, similar to iSCSI or |
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> SATAoE, but is non-standard (AFAIK) and currently only useful is |
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> homogeneous Linux environments (since other OSes don't have support for |
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> it). |
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> It's a bit odd that you have those device nodes. udev shouldn't create |
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> them until they are imported. Delete them, then run 'udevtrigger && |
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> udevsettle' (as root) and see if they are recreated. |
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Yes they are recreated. I'm not aware of anything on this system that |
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would use such a feature unless a USB thumb drive qualifies. |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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