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
next prev parent 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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