From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: userspace block driver?
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:13:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051110131356.GA9584@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4371A4ED.9020800@pobox.com>
Hi!
> Has anybody put any thought towards how a userspace block driver would work?
>
> Consider a block device implemented via an SSL network connection. I
> don't want to put SSL in the kernel, which means the only other
> alternative is to pass data to/from a userspace daemon.
>
> Anybody have any favorite methods? [similar to] mmap'd packet socket?
> ramfs?
drivers/block/nbd?
Pavel
--
Thanks, Sharp!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-10 13:14 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
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 [this message]
2005-11-16 3:13 ` Michael Clark
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