Blockish

Blockish is a server for the NBD protocol implemented in Java. This allows you to serve up storage as a virtual block device to Linux systems from any system that can run Java. It is designed to support multiple pluggable backends.

Available backends:

1. Memory (useful for providing network swap)
2. File
3. S3 (Use Amazon's S3 service as a block device!)

Blockish is in an early stage of development and should not be used for production work.

Download an executable JAR file that can be run on any platform that supports Java, the source code, or the user manual.

Blockish is Open Source, free software and is licensed under the GPL.

To run, just execute the jar with a single argument that gives the path to a configuration file. Three example configuration files are included: file.xml memory.xml s3.xml

For bug reports, feature requests, and evaluation licenses, contact blockish@stackframe.com.