Re: In-kernel units for block numbers, etc ...

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

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