Le mercredi 19 mars 2008 Ã 16:24 -0400, Bill Davidsen a Ãcrit :Actually the usual partitioning tools will create partitions on nbd volumes, but without inodes they are not useful. I thought we used to have that working, to work on virtual machine "disk" files which were partitioned, but that was several years ago and I could be misremembering. I did use fdisk on an nbd device before I asked about overhead, but I didn't try to use the partitions.Laurent Vivier wrote:v3 is an updated version of v2, replacing a "%d" by a "%lu".How does this compare in overhead to using nbd?
This patch allows to use loop device with partitionned disk image.
What do you mean ?
NBD doesn't manage partitions... but I also have a patch to do that.
NBD implies an NBD server and an NBD client in userspace, so loop is
better when disk image is in a raw format.