To do so, a remote machine, say `nbdhost.example.com` is set up as
`NBD server` with one or more export names, say including `part000`,
-that on the server side maps to a partition image file.
+that on the server side maps to a partition image or file.
With a mount helper the client side would include an entry in its
`/etc/fstab` for instance like the following:
nbd://nbdhost.example.com/part000 /nbd/1 nbd noauto,noatime 0 2
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That would declare a mounting of that exported NBD partition onto the
-(alread existsing) pathname `/mnt/1` on the local machine. With the
+(already existsing) pathname `/mnt/1` on the local machine. With the
__type__ field of the `fstab` entry being `nbd`, the mount program
will use `/sbin/mount.nbd` as helper for handling that entry.
The helper script `/sbin/mount.nbd` provided here uses the
-`nbd-client` program to handle the service connection as device node
-such as `/dev/nbd0` and then mount that onto `/mnt/1`. The script will
-further spawn a monitor daemon to terminate the service connection
-upon unmounting. This script needs `inotify`, `nbd-client` and the
-`nbd` kernel module or built-in to function.
+`nbd-client` program to handle the service connection and provide that
+as a device node such as `/dev/nbd0`. Ths script mounts that device
+node on `/mnt/1` and spawn a monitor daemon to terminate the service
+connection upon unmounting. This script needs `inotify`, `nbd-client`
+and the `nbd` kernel module or built-in to function.
The helper script `/sbin/mount.nbdfuse` provided here is similar but
-will rely on `nbdfuse` for service connection. The `fstab` entry would
-then have `nbdfuse` as __type__ indicator. This script needs
-`inotify`, `nbdfuse` and the `fuse` and `loop` kernel modules or
-built-in to function.
-
+will rely on `nbdfuse` for service connection and presents that on a
+`/run` directory (named by a mangling of the remote URL). For this
+case the `fstab` entry would then have `nbdfuse` as __type__
+indicator. The helper script mounts the `nbdfuse` "partition" on
+`/mnt/1` and spawn a monitor daemon to terminate the service
+connection upon unmounting. This script needs `inotify`, `nbdfuse` and
+the `fuse` and `loop` kernel modules or built-in to function.