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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:24:18 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> To: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@...ux.de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: block devices in userland On Sat 2008-07-05 18:29:02, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * devzero@....de <devzero@....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. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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