Live briefing
Everything about Network block device
Network storage protocol
On Linux, network block device (NBD) is a network protocol that can be used to forward a block device from one machine to a second machine. As an example, a local machine can access a hard disk drive that is attached to another computer. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Network block deviceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: An optimized device‐to‐device (D2D) blockchain network for the insurance industryInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Java software solutionsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: BitNBD: BitTorrent-Based Network Block Device for Provisioning Virtual Machines in IaaS CloudsCited 3 times
- Go sideways: ATA over EthernetA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Linux Terminal Server ProjectA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
BitNBD: BitTorrent-Based Network Block Device for Provisioning Virtual Machines in IaaS Clouds
Empirical analysis of Android storage management using Network Block Device (NBD) protocol: A comprehensive performance and efficiency study
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Java software solutionsLewis, John, John E. Lewis Ph. D. · 1997
Invitation to Computer ScienceG. Michael Schneider, Judith L. Gersting · 1995
Crime scene investigationMichael Braswell, Jacqueline T. Fish · 2007
Linux device driversAlessandro Rubini, Jonathan Corbet · 1998
Advances in Multimedia ModelingShipeng Li · 2012
The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
Principles of Distributed SystemsRoberto Baldoni · 2012
The UNIX operating systemChristian, Kaare, Kaare Christian · 1983
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- ATA over Ethernet ATA over Ethernet (AoE) is a network protocol developed by the Brantley Coile Company, designed for simple, high-performance access of block storage devices…
- Linux Terminal Server Project Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) is a free and open-source terminal server for Linux that allows many people to simultaneously use the same computer…
- Device file In Unix-like operating systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were…
- Network Direct Attached Storage Network Direct Attached Storage (NDAS) is a proprietary storage area network system, originally marketed by the company Ximeta, for connecting external…
- ISCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI; /aɪˈskʌzi/ eye-SKUZ-ee) is an Internet Protocol-based storage networking standard for linking data storage…
- QEMU The Quick Emulator (QEMU) is a free and open-source machine emulator and virtualizer. As a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) it supports a number of hypervisors…
- TCP offload engine TCP offload engine (TOE) is a technology used in some network interface cards (NIC) to offload processing of the entire TCP/IP stack to the network controller…
- LIO (SCSI target) The Linux-IO (LIO) is an open-source Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) target implementation included with the Linux kernel.[better source needed]…