Re: RAIT device driver feasibility

From: Ludovic Drolez
Date: Thu Jan 13 2005 - 12:55:04 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
On Iau, 2005-01-13 at 15:42, Ludovic Drolez wrote:

RAIT already exists in Amanda, in user space, but I'd like to see a generic kernel RAIT driver which could be used by any backup program.


Why kernel space - why not a user space shared library you can add to
other tape apps?

A shared library which would override read(), write() in the program ? Why not...

But do you think you can chain/bounce, ioctl(), read(), writes from a char driver to another ?

Regards,

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