nbd: nbd (Network Block Device TCP version)
nbd: 
nbd: With NBD you can access block device on remote host just as it was in
nbd: your local /dev. It works with companion with the kernel nbd driver and
nbd: consists of a server and a client. Communication between client and
nbd: server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client program this is
nbd: hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to a block device
nbd: special file such as /dev/nd0.
nbd: 
nbd: Homepage: http://nbd.sourceforge.net/
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