Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754216AbZG0N0V (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:26:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753963AbZG0N0V (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:26:21 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:35115 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753751AbZG0N0V (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:26:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:25:36 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Zachary Amsden , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, axboe@kernel.dk, hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Paul.Clements@steeleye.com, tytso@mit.edu, Tejun Heo , miklos Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace block device implementation Message-ID: <20090727142536.465799aa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1248699365.6987.1628.camel@twins> References: <4A6D79F6.3050509@redhat.com> <1248699365.6987.1628.camel@twins> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 560 Lines: 13 > Somehow this made me think of FUSE/CUSE... should this be named aBUSE? > Oh wait it is :-), what I'm after is I guess is, can we share some of > the FUSE/CUSE code? It reminds me of the existing and perfectly functional network block device (nbd) we already have and which has also been present for years. Alan -- 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/