[ENBD] Does NBD support hardware RAID devices?

Peter T. Breuer enbd@lists.community.tummy.com
Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:20:48 +0100 (MET)


"A month of sundays ago RakeshMaurya wrote:"
> I want to access remote hardware RAID device locally on my m/c using NBD. Does NBD offer support for RAID devices??

No, nor does it need to, for read and write. Any block device (including
hardware or software raid) "just works".

> Pls enlighten me..

I'm afraid the path to enlightenment is one that only you can traverse,
in general. In this case, you need to realise that it is your
perception of a problem which may be a problem, not the problem, if you
follow me ... ;)

Maybe you are talking about support for out-of-band data, such as
ioctls? Not read and write? If so, then the answer is that it CAN
support it, but someone has to go in and add the appropriate entries
to the fixup table in ioctl.c. I'll do it if given sufficient clue.

Peter