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Date:      Mon, 15 May 2006 19:11:15 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Optional mmap(2) support for geom(4) providers
Message-ID:  <4468B633.90905@fer.hr>
In-Reply-To: <4468B3C8.8010707@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <44681D92.80309@sippysoft.com> <4468AA73.9000702@fer.hr> <4468B3C8.8010707@FreeBSD.org>

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Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> I am not sure that I understand what do you mean. In the case of md(4) 
> mmap makes huge sense, since for preloaded images your disk in fact is 
> just range of kernel memory, so that doing mmap is trivial.

You're right. I was thinking of making mmap() of "raw" devices possible 
(like it is in Linux), but I see that it would be extremely nontrivial 
:) (block devices on Linux...)




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