Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:49:10 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: GEOM virtual storage early alpha Message-ID: <ebu131$dst$1@sea.gmane.org>
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As part of Google's Summer Of Code 2006, I've been working on a "virtual storage" class for GEOM. The purpose of this class is to allow creating a large virtual storage device backed up by physical storage devices of smaller total size. The development home page for the project is http://wikitest.freebsd.org/gvirstor (where you can download a convenient .tgz). Gvirstor (under whatever name it will be when it's finished) is almost done. The basic operation and metadata are not expected to change, so I think this is a good time for wider exposure. Some minor functionality is still unimplemented, like "stop" command (from userland, not kldunload). If anyone's interested, please help test the module. It can be downloaded from the above web page (use the latest archive), or from //depot/user/ivoras/gvirstor in P4. Notes: - This is work in progress, not finished. Do not alert the media :) - This is a good time for feature requests (that fit in gvirstor's model). - Read the README (or the man page if you use P4) for instructions on how to use it. - This is made for RELENG_6, and only tested on i386. Bug reports are welcome. - Sponsored by Google, mentor: Pawel Jakub Dawidek, pjd at freebsd.org - I'll make an official announcement when the project's done and ready for use.
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