On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Two more articles:
http://w3.linux-magazine.com/issue/70/Network_Block_Devices.pdf
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7118
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Perhaps some URL for the really really newbie:
>
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 08:08:12AM +0530, Naval wrote:
>>> Thank you very much for replying, I really appreciate your help.
>>>
>>> >Like the one in the kernel already?
>>>
>>> Yes. But i am really unable to figure out how kernel does that.
>
> 1. Lots of googling - focusing on key technical words like "nbd",
> otherwise u will get lots of related stuff....which is also good for
> general reading.
>
> 2. Start with high level (and proceed down to network level):
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-kernel/
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-networking-stack/
>
> and next is the specific block devices via network:
>
> http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/nbd.txt (which is very
> much userspace in fact, and not very helpful as it only effectively
> says "nbd works") and the one I found most useful:
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3778
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8149
>
> http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kripac/orac-nbd/
>
> http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/02/nbd-tutorial-network-block-device-jumpstart-guide/
>
> http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/
>
> (last one being an enhanced nbd internals....)
>
> So....as u can see....lots of resources from different places....no
> central resources...learn googling. But concurrent with that read a
> book in depth on Linux kernel internal will be useful.
>
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> Regards,
> Peter Teoh
>
Regards,
Peter Teoh
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Regards,
Naval
