https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/nbd/ Recent content in Nbd on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-05-10-self-hosted-nbd-server-network-block-device-storage/ Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-05-10-self-hosted-nbd-server-network-block-device-storage/ <p>Network Block Device (NBD) is a Linux kernel protocol that allows a remote server&rsquo;s storage to appear as a local block device. Unlike file-level sharing protocols like NFS or SMB, NBD operates at the <strong>block level</strong>, meaning the client sees a raw disk device (<code>/dev/nbd0</code>) that can be formatted with any filesystem, used for swap, or configured as a LVM physical volume. This makes NBD a powerful tool for building distributed storage architectures, live migration setups, and network-booted environments.</p>