Hey HN! I just released go-nbd, a lightweight Go library for effortlessly creating NBD servers and clients with Go. Its a neat tool for creating custom Linux block devices with arbitrary backends, such as a file, byte slice or what I’m planning to use it for, a tape drive. While there are a few partially abandoned projects like this out […]
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