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Re: In-kernel units for block numbers, etc ...
On Nov 29, 12:05am, Michael van Elst wrote:
} kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost (Robert Elz) writes:
}
} >I havem't looked carefully yet, but does vnd have the RMW behaviour to
} >allow an emulated small sector drive to exist on a big sector underlying.
}
} It doesn't need to, the backend is a file and you can access arbitrary
} byte positions. The "RMW behaviour" is what the underlying filesystem
} automatically provides.
On a side note, if the backend is just a file, why doesn't
vnd(4) work with NFS?
}-- End of excerpt from Michael van Elst
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