From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: block devices in userland
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 18:29:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080705162902.GA26789@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <342518340@web.de>
* devzero@web.de <devzero@web.de> wrote:
> >is there an API for writing block device drivers in userland ?
>
> i don`t know if there is some in vanilla, but maybe dm-userspace is worth taking a look at ?
> see http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DmUserspace
hmm, doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for - it just leaves the
mapping of virtual to physical blocks to userland.
What I need is passing the whole read/write requests to some userland
deamon - these blocks won't come from any (in-kernel) block device,
but an totally different kind of storage (eg. venti).
cu
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-05 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-04 22:51 block devices in userland devzero
2008-07-05 16:29 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2008-07-10 18:24 ` Pavel Machek
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2008-07-04 22:11 Enrico Weigelt
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