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Re: [Nbd] DVD support



On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:48:53AM +1100, Matt Hakim wrote:
> Hi,
> I noticed that NBD doesn't work with DVD devices ie. I want to play a
> DVD from a remote drive.
> Have you investigated the technical limitations here? I'd be
> interested in hacking it to work.

NBD doesn't have support for remoting ioctl() calls, and would need a
protocol change for that to happen. I'm not sure whether it's a good
idea, but of course you're always welcome to look at it :-)

I should, however, mention that Peter T. Breuer's 'ENBD' does have
support for ioctl() passing. You may want to have a look at that before
you start doing code.

ENBD is at http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/

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