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Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v1 0/5] dm: dm-user: New target that proxies
 BIOs to userspace
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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        Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
        Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
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From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
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On 12/7/20 10:55 AM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> All in all, I've found it a bit hard to figure out what sort of interest
> people
> have in dm-user: when I bring this up I seem to run into people who've done
> similar things before and are vaguely interested, but certainly nobody is
> chomping at the bit.  I'm sending it out in this early state to try and
> figure
> out if it's interesting enough to keep going.

Cc-ing Josef and Mike since their nbd contributions make me wonder
whether this new driver could be useful to their use cases?

Thanks,

Bart.