nbd-trdump(1)

nbd-trdump1

Translate an nbd transaction log into human readable form

Usage

nbd-trdump

Overview

nbd-trdump translates a transaction log produced by nbd-server (specifically by the transactionlog configuration directive) into human readable form.

The command acts as a traditional UNIX filter, i.e. the transaction log must be supplied on standard input, and the human readable output is sent to standard output.

Output

The following may be output:

>

A request packet sent from the client to the server.

<

A reply packet sent from the server to the client.

<S

A structured reply packet sent from the server to the client.

H

The cookie of the packet. Note: previous versions of this man page (and the NBD spec) referred to the cookie as the "handle".

C

The command sent.

O

The offet from the start of the disk.

L

The length of data.

E

The error returned.

T

The type of the structured reply message.

F

The flags on the structured reply message.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 8–12
  2. 13–Arch

Author

The NBD kernel module and the NBD tools have been written by Pavel Macheck ([email protected]).

The kernel module is now maintained by Paul Clements ([email protected]), while the userland tools are maintained by Wouter Verhelst ([email protected])

This manual page was written by Wouter Verhelst (<[email protected]>) for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

From nbd 3.27.1-4 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.