[ENBD] Confussion in data transfer

[Peter T. Breuer]

"A month of sundays ago Srinivas wrote:"
> ENBD. In simple terms it exports a local block device on machine A over  
> network to machineB as a local device.I want to know how the data will be 
> transfered internally which algorithm it follows. Any one plz help me.

Which algorithm? I am confused - surely you mean WHAT algorithm!
Anyway, there is nothing that merits the name of an algorithm, though
yes, there is a /protocol/.  The linux journal paper defines the data
structures involved ...

  http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3778

What goes over the net is a header followed by raw data. The header
defines the size and location on disk of the data.

Peter