From: Dutch Meyer <dmeyer@cs.ubc.ca>
To: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Jia Rao <rickenrao@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What are the new features from blktaps
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:48:47 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.60.1001121348030.6026@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263332753.18136.235.camel@agari.van.xensource.com>
Also: blktap2 has a driver for the vhd format.
--Dutch
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 15:05 -0500, Jia Rao wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> Searched but can't find anything.
>> I am wondering what are the new features that will come with blktap2,
>> compared to blktap ?
>
> Right now it's mainly an architectural thing.
>
> - The original blktap duplicated a lot of what originally
> constituted just blkback.
>
> - Access to virtual disk images from within dom0 gets
> more straightforward. Which matters a lot for some things dom0 can
> do to disks.
>
> - Request dispatch between kernel and userspace will get way more
> efficient at some point.
>
> - Blktap on non-Xen systems ...
>
> - ...
>
> Daniel
>
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-12 20:05 What are the new features from blktaps Jia Rao
2010-01-12 20:19 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-01-12 21:45 ` Daniel Stodden
2010-01-12 21:48 ` Dutch Meyer [this message]
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