CentOS - Feb 2018 - A question about NBD kernel module...

Hi,

I would like to mount a device using NBD protocol on CentOS 7 but it looks
like the module is not available by default in the kernel. Is there a way I
can install it (like from a rpm somewhere)? I found instructions to build
such a module but want to make sure that it is not already available in
some repo before I go ahead with building.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Raghu

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:59 AM, Raghuram Devarakonda
<draghuram at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to mount a device using NBD protocol on CentOS 7 but it looks
> like the module is not available by default in the kernel. Is there a way I
> can install it (like from a rpm somewhere)? I found instructions to build
> such a module but want to make sure that it is not already available in
> some repo before I go ahead with building.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
You can do one (or both) of the following:

(1) File a request on http://bugs.centos.org and ask that
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD be enabled in the centosplus kernel.
(2) File a request on http://elrepo.org/bugs and ask for a driver
(kmod package) for that.

Akemi