1nbdkit-noextents-filter(1)          NBDKIT          nbdkit-noextents-filter(1)
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NAME

6       nbdkit-noextents-filter - disable extents in the underlying plugin
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SYNOPSIS

9        nbdkit --filter=noextents plugin
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DESCRIPTION

12       “Extents” are a feature of the NBD protocol / nbdkit which allow the
13       client to detect sparse regions of the underlying disk.
14       "nbdkit-noextents-filter" disables this so that the plugin appears to
15       be fully allocated, at least to a client that requests structured
16       replies.  It is also possible to use the --no-sr option to nbdkit to
17       prevent the client from using structured replies, which among its other
18       side effects will prevent the client from querying extents at all.
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20       This filter can be useful when combined with nbdkit-file-plugin(1)
21       serving a file from a file system known to have poor lseek(2)
22       performance ("tmpfs" is known to be one such system).
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PARAMETERS

25       There are no parameters specific to nbdkit-noextents-filter.  Any
26       parameters are passed through to and processed by the underlying plugin
27       in the normal way.
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FILES

30       $filterdir/nbdkit-noextents-filter.so
31           The filter.
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33           Use "nbdkit --dump-config" to find the location of $filterdir.
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VERSION

36       "nbdkit-noextents-filter" first appeared in nbdkit 1.14.
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SEE ALSO

39       nbdkit(1), nbdkit-filter(3), nbdkit-extentlist-filter(1),
40       nbdkit-fua-filter(1), nbdkit-multi-conn-filter(1),
41       nbdkit-nocache-filter(1), nbdkit-noparallel-filter(1),
42       nbdkit-nozero-filter(1), nbdkit-file-plugin(1).
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AUTHORS

45       Richard W.M. Jones
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48       Copyright Red Hat
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LICENSE

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