NAME

nbdkit-example1-plugin - minimal nbdkit plugin

SYNOPSIS

 nbdkit example1

DESCRIPTION

"nbdkit-example1-plugin" is a minimal nbdkit(1) plugin.

It serves, readonly, from memory, a static blob of data which looks a little bit like a 100 MB disk image that contains a single empty partition.

Mainly this is useful for testing nbdkit and as an example for writing nbdkit plugins (nbdkit-plugin(3)).

FILES

$plugindir/nbdkit-example1-plugin.so: The plugin.
Use "nbdkit --dump-config" to find the location of $plugindir.

VERSION

"nbdkit-example1-plugin" first appeared in nbdkit 1.0.

AUTHORS

Richard W.M. Jones

COPYRIGHT

LICENSE

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