Re: Linux v2.5.42

Alexander Kellett
2002-10-24T11:39:04Z

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 05:57:06PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> All you need is:
> 1) a kernel level driver that can map devices, ie. a device mapper
> 2) user space tools that can parse the volume metadata and tell the
> kernel how to map each chunk at initialisation or mount time

stupid user question here. does the dm stuff make
vmware partition mounts easy without needing
all the nbd overhead?, or would the mappings be
so large that they negate the decrease in nbd
overhead?

Alex