Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Nov 2005 11:12:21 +0100 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: userspace block driver? |
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On 2005-11-09T08:54:56, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> > >>Has anybody put any thought towards how a userspace block driver ^^^^^^^^^ > > >>would work? > > I was going to say drbd, but then you did say more lightweight :-) ^^^^
drbd is implemented all in-kernel, too.
The deadlock scenarios with running block IO through user-space are still somewhat unsolved, though. Not that block over network IO (in particular TCP) is much better even when implemented in-kernel...
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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