Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751273AbVKIHyE (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 02:54:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751313AbVKIHyE (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 02:54:04 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:50794 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751273AbVKIHyC (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 02:54:02 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:54:56 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Neil Brown , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: userspace block driver? Message-ID: <20051109075455.GN3699@suse.de> References: <4371A4ED.9020800@pobox.com> <17265.42782.188870.907784@cse.unsw.edu.au> <4371A944.6070302@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4371A944.6070302@pobox.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 785 Lines: 26 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? -- Jens Axboe - 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/