Files in this drectory ending in .conf are included to the main configuration. Use this for exported nbd devices. For example file export1.conf: [export1] exportname = /export/nbd/export1-file authfile = /export/nbd/export1-authfile timeout = 30 filesize = 10000000 readonly = false multifile = false copyonwrite = false prerun = dd if=/dev/zero of=%s bs=1k count=500 postrun = rm -f %s