Re: block devices in userland

[Enrico Weigelt]

* devzero@xxxxxx <devzero@xxxxxx> 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).


cu
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