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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by stevelandis on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @09:38PM (#11819759)
Here is an example script that will panic anyone using NBD to server a block device (replace qemu-nbd with the nbd export provided by torus)

qemu-img create -f qcow2 f.img 1G mkfs.ext4 f.img modprobe nbd || true qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 f.img mount /dev/nbd0 k killall -KILL qemu-nbd sleep 1 ls k

Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by electrum on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @03:30PM (#11857094)
Above script with correct formatting:

  qemu-img create -f qcow2 f.img 1G
  mkfs.ext4 f.img
  modprobe nbd || true
  qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 f.img
  mount /dev/nbd0 k
  killall -KILL qemu-nbd
  sleep 1
  ls k