Exporting local hard disk partitions via nbd

I don't know if it's of any use to anyone else but I just modifed the
/etc/init.d/rcS init file to export all local ide disk partitions via
nbd-server and it seems to work OK.  All I did was to take the bit of code
from the section that mounts these partitions locally, copied it, and
replaced the mount line with one that starts nbd-server.  Is this the right
way to do this?

In any event here is the bit that I added starting at line 1696 in rcS:

			if [ "$NBD_SERVER_ENABLED" -eq 1 ]
			then
				for p in $HD/part*
				do
					if [ "$p" = "$HD/part\*" ]
					then
						break
					fi

					n=${p##*part}
					t=`file $p 2>/dev/null`
					if [ "$?" -eq 0 -a -n "$t" ]
					then
#						mount -t $t -o ro $p /mnt/hd${n}
						nbd-server 901${n} $p &
						bootmsg -n "      (part${n} exported as $p)"
					fi
				done
			fi

-- 
Ray


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