Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751258AbVKIHqT (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 02:46:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751264AbVKIHqT (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 02:46:19 -0500 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:7904 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751258AbVKIHqS (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 02:46:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4371A944.6070302@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 02:46:12 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Brown CC: Linux Kernel , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: userspace block driver? References: <4371A4ED.9020800@pobox.com> <17265.42782.188870.907784@cse.unsw.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <17265.42782.188870.907784@cse.unsw.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 613 Lines: 22 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. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/