Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:24:18 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: block devices in userland |
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On Sat 2008-07-05 18:29:02, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * devzero@web.de <devzero@web.de> wrote: > > >is there an API for writing block device drivers in userland ? > > > > i don`t know if there is some in vanilla, but maybe dm-userspace is worth taking a look at ? > > see http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DmUserspace > > hmm, doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for - it just leaves the > mapping of virtual to physical blocks to userland. > > What I need is passing the whole read/write requests to some userland > deamon - these blocks won't come from any (in-kernel) block device, > but an totally different kind of storage (eg. venti).
nbd, but be careful about deadlocks.
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