nbdkit-zero-plugin1

Usage

Overview

"nbdkit-zero-plugin" is a zero length plugin for nbdkit(1). It presents a virtual device of size 0. This plugin is used to test corner cases in nbdkit, the NBD protocol and NBD clients.

If you want a read-only plugin with non-zero size containing zero bytes, use nbdkit-null-plugin(1). For a writable plugin that starts off initialized to zeroes (a RAM disk), use nbdkit-memory-plugin(1).

Files

$plugindir/nbdkit-zero-plugin.so

The plugin.

Use "nbdkit --dump-config" to find the location of $plugindir.

Version

"nbdkit-zero-plugin" first appeared in nbdkit 1.4.