Keith C. Perry via plug on 5 Feb 2021 22:27:32 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] mount -t clouds? [SOLVED]


If I'm not mistaken there are Windows NBD servers too. I like using NBDs for more robust solutions since I can then use bcache on top of it. That really makes access more responsive when your bandwidth is tight and / or dynamic.

On February 5, 2021 9:01:07 PM EST, brent saner via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
I'm surprised you didn't stumble upon https://github.com/winnfsd/winnfsd



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On Fri, Feb 5, 2021, 19:57 Floyd Johnson via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
Sure enough, I found a way to use the tower computer in the house - a Windows box - to hold stuff my Chromebook can't.

As I wanted to maintain file modes, I created a 64gb file of zeroes in a shared directory on the Windows box, this file to become a mountable disk image . I had to do it on the console, as doing so over the WLAN was an hour-plus proposition.

From there, I first mounted the share (" -t smb3") containing this disk-image-to-be, then used mkfs.ext4 on that file. Finally, I mounted the image as a loopback device under the directory I previously used to mount the USB stick. 

So now, I'm using spare disk on a Windows rig over the wireless network. Aside from slow-ish loading of monstrous apps like Unity3d and Android Studio, it runs pretty well.



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