Re: userspace block driver?

Jens Axboe
2005-11-09T07:54:04Z

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?

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Jens Axboe