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nbdkit-zero-plugin - nbdkit zero length plugin

 nbdkit zero

"nbdkit-zero-plugin" is a zero length plugin for nbdkit(1). It presents a virtual device of length zero bytes.

This plugin is mainly good for testing corner cases in nbdkit, the NBD protocol and NBD clients.

$plugindir/nbdkit-zero-plugin.so
The plugin.

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

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

nbdkit(1), nbdkit-plugin(3), nbdkit-data-plugin(1), nbdkit-full-plugin(1), nbdkit-null-plugin(1), nbdkit-pattern-plugin(1), nbdkit-random-plugin(1), nbdkit-sparse-random-plugin(1).

Richard W.M. Jones

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2021-01-20 nbdkit-1.24.1