nbd
Network Block Device (by NetworkBlockDevice)
udisks
The UDisks project provides a daemon, tools and libraries to access and manipulate disks, storage devices and technologies. (by storaged-project)
| nbd | udisks | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 23 | |
| 434 | 324 | |
| 0.9% | 0.9% | |
| 8.4 | 8.5 | |
| 10 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nbd
Posts with mentions or reviews of nbd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-27.
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Accessing my laptop's CD drive over ethernet from my main PC
You could try https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd. Block devices have a file-like interface, but they're not exactly the same as files. As far as I know, Samba isn't suitable for sharing block devices.
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What is an easy/quick way to transfer an entire install to a new drive?
If you have another system but it can only fit one storage device, put the new one in there, use NBD (or ATAoE, or iSCSI) to expose that storage device over the network to the old system, and use the regular ZFS tools to migrate data. This is how I typically clone systems in the scenario you’re describing (albeit usually using other tooling as I typically do not use ZFS), and if you’ve got a reliable network it generally works very well.
- Am I SOL? - Drobo 5N - Perpetual Reboot
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/dev level distributed computing?
NBD
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How I spent my weekend learning about iSCSI on Linux
For what it's worth, I tried iSCSI for storage, but NBD gave me better performance in some scenarios, probably because it's a much simpler protocol.
udisks
Posts with mentions or reviews of udisks.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-06.
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PSA: udisks2 issues
For anyone who's experiencing slow performance after a recent update or issues with udisks or other applications using udisks: There seems to be some kind of cluster of problems with udisks 2.10.1: https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues
- UDisks 2.10 Released With Native NVMe Support, LVM2 RAID
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So I switched to Arch for a month...
Let's say many (fundamental) tools didn't natively hooked it up until very recently.
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Cannot access external drive on KDE
See https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/1039
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MicroOS Desktop KDE
According to https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/blob/da8a7d0dfd586d1b50c87f2345f856cffa57d9fe/data/builtin_mount_options.conf , 'exec' is an allowed safe mount option. So I can't figure out immediately why it's being rejected either.
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I want to share the storage between my linux and Windows system
I'm not sure what you mean by "didn't work out of the box", but if you're not specifying the ntfs3 driver in your fstab, then udisks2 will default to the user-space driver, ntfs-3g. This is already fixed, but will only be available in a future release of udisks2.
- I have a program requesting sudo access randomly saying its to update SMART data
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This is what I see everytime I open my PC. I'm not long time user so can someone explain me what are these and how can I solve this problem?
It redirects me to this github page when I click the details and open the link: https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks
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NTFS partition stopped working
I have an external SSD that is a NTFS partition. I have been using it normally since I put the following rules on /etc/udisks2/mount_options.conf, as suggested on this PR:
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Tumbleweed asks for permission to open /sda1 after logging in
It's the Udisks program calling it, https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks /dev/sda1 is an ext4 formatted drive. /dev/sda2 is my primary drive which has everything including my home directory etc and is formatted btrfs. /dev/sda1 points to:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nbd and udisks you can also consider the following projects:
tbox - 🎁 A glib-like multi-platform c library
openSeaChest - Cross platform utilities useful for performing various operations on SATA, SAS, NVMe, and USB storage devices.
GlusterFS - Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
FreeRADIUS - FreeRADIUS - A multi-protocol policy server.
mkstage4 - Bash Utility for Creating Stage 4 Tarballs
fatrace - report system wide file access events
Cockpit - Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers.
distrobox - Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
libblockdev - A library for manipulating block devices.
Clight - A C daemon that turns your webcam into a light sensor. It will adjust screen backlight based on ambient brightness.
gnome-shell-extension-arrangeWindows
wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin - A kde wallpaper plugin integrating wallpaper engine