geom, devfs

Ted Unangst tedu at zeitbombe.org
Sat Sep 13 15:20:15 PDT 2003


On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, ibotty wrote:

> do you/we plan to port geom[1] (or a similar) framework to DragonFly?
> i came across this, when i thought about geom-gate, which looks very
> interesting. 

i'm currently implementing a "userland disk" for openbsd (inspired by 
pawel's talk) which should be able to communicate with geom gate.  the 
idea is basically the same, an ioctl interface passes read/write requests 
to a userland daemon.  depending on the daemon attached, it could show up 
as a networked device, or ccd, or something else entirely, maybe even 
a gbde replacement.


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