alt Hacker NewsiSCSI seems intentionally obscure. One of the improvements I made to NBD was invent a simple, standardized URI format so that you can specify servers easily, eg:
nbdinfo nbd://server
nbdcopy nbd://server:2001/ nbd+unix:///?socket=/tmp/localsock
NBD looks pretty nice! I've been eyeing it from afar for a while.
How well does it work in environments with noticeable network latency?