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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: userspace block driver?
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:54:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051109075455.GN3699@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4371A944.6070302@pobox.com>

On Wed, Nov 09 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Neil Brown wrote:
> >On Wednesday November 9, jgarzik@pobox.com wrote:
> >
> >>Has anybody put any thought towards how a userspace block driver
> >>would work?
> >
> >
> >Isn't this was enbd does? 
> >  http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/
> 
> Is there something there relevant for modern kernels?  I would sure hope 
> I could come up with something more lightweight than that.

I was going to say drbd, but then you did say more lightweight :-)

Is nbd completely screwed these days?

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-09  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-09  7:27 userspace block driver? Jeff Garzik
2005-11-09  7:37 ` Neil Brown
2005-11-09  7:46   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-09  7:54     ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-11-09  8:01       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-09 12:42         ` Paulo Marques
2005-11-09 12:54           ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-11-09 14:04             ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-11-11  0:12               ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-11  5:59                 ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-11-09 10:12       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-11-09  7:50 ` Chris Wright
2005-11-09  7:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-11-09  8:37   ` Avi Kivity
2005-11-09 13:32 ` Jonathan Corbet
2005-11-09 20:56 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2005-11-12 23:42   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2005-11-10 13:13 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-16  3:13 ` Michael Clark

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