rnbd

RNBD (RDMA Network Block Device) and RTRS (RDMA Transport Library) are two pairs of kernel modules (client and server) that allow for remote access to a block device over RDMA (InfiniBand, RoCE, iWARP).

rndb is a tool which allows user to configure said kernel modules in a convienient way.

For the description of the interface see Manpage.

Creating releases

To create a release, increase the version in Makefile, document the noteworthy changes in NEWS, and commit and tag the release

git commit -sm "Makefile: release rnbd $(make version)" Makefile NEWS
git tag "$(make version)"

The xz-compressed release tarball can be generated by running:

make dist