Re: Filesystem

[email protected] (Peter T. Breuer) Sun, 27 Mar 2005 13:24:33 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.enbd.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi!

In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
> The question is about the filesystem on the server side of nbd
> connection. In the online HOWTO I've found the folowing line:
>  nbd-server 1100 1101 1102 1103 /dev/sda1.

Hmm .. that's an out-of date howto. It would be

  enbd-server 1099 -n 4 /dev/sda1

> It is written that the /dev/sda1 may a partiion or a file. In my
> application I'd like to use /mnt/tmpfs where the tmpfs filesystem is
> mounted.

Well, you'll have to make a file on it and serve that or use the device
special file that points to the medium underneath.  Isn't it /dev/shm?

mount:
  ...
  tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

> It's a ramdisk with his own filesystem (tmpfs). So is it
> possible to use ext2 for example on the client side?

Peter