linux-ext4 - Re: Create ext2 filesystem from a directory

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Date:   Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:44:16 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@...hat.com>
CC:     <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Create ext2 filesystem from a directory

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:03:33AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> This might interest/disgust/shock/scare(?!) people on this list:
> 
> $ time ./nbdkit --filter=partition -U - linuxdisk . partition=1 --run 'qemu-img convert $nbd /var/tmp/ext2fs.img'
> 

For those of us who aren't really familiar with nbdkit, what does this do?

    	     	    	   	  	   		- Ted