NBD is a protocol for accessing block devices (hard disks and
disk-like things) over the network.
nbdkit is a toolkit for creating NBD servers.
The key features are:
* Multithreaded NBD server written in C with good performance.
* Minimal dependencies for the basic server.
* Liberal license (BSD) allows nbdkit to be linked to proprietary
libraries or included in proprietary code.
* Well-documented, simple plugin API with a stable ABI guarantee.
Lets you to export "unconventional" block devices easily.
* You can write plugins in C or many other languages.
* Filters can be stacked in front of plugins to transform the output.
'nbdkit' is a meta-package which pulls in the core server and a
useful subset of plugins and filters with minimal dependencies.
If you want just the server, install 'nbdkit-server'.
To develop plugins, install the 'nbdkit-devel' package and start by
reading the nbdkit(1) and nbdkit-plugin(3) manual pages.
* Mon Jul 14 2025 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.38.5-5
- Support VDDK 9
resolves: RHEL-103420
* Sat Jul 05 2025 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.38.5-4
- server: Fix .zero fallback path
resolves: RHEL-101702
* Tue May 13 2025 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.38.5-3
- file: zero: Use BLKDISCARD method if may_trim is set
resolves: RHEL-91094
* Mon Jan 06 2025 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.38.5-2
- vddk: Avoid reading partial chunk beyond the end of the disk
resolves: RHEL-71694
* Sat Sep 28 2024 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.38.5-1
- Rebase to 1.38.5 (along stable branch)
* Fri Jul 26 2024 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.38.3-1
- Rebase to 1.38.3 (along stable branch)
- Send the last error to the NBD client
resolves: RHEL-50664
* Tue Apr 09 2024 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> - 1.38.0-1
- Rebase to 1.38.0
- Added selinux subpackage
- resolves: RHEL-31884
* Wed Dec 20 2023 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.36.2-1
- Rebase to 1.36.2
resolves: RHEL-14475
- partition: Suggest alternate partition-sectorsize
resolves: RHEL-19815
* Tue Aug 01 2023 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.34.2-1
- Rebase to 1.34.2
resolves: rhbz#2168629
- Backport nbdkit-curl-plugin "multi" interface support
resolves: rhbz#2228131
