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Date:      Mon, 15 May 2006 12:52:37 -0700
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@sippysoft.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Optional mmap(2) support for geom(4) providers
Message-ID:  <4468DC05.9080808@sippysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <2233.1147718952@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <2233.1147718952@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <44681D92.80309@sippysoft.com>, Maxim Sobolev writes:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to extend md(4) with support for mmap(4) operations, 
> 
> Uhm, how exactly would that work ?

Just like ioctl(2) works: geom_dev will accept mmap requests and pass it 
to the underlying provider for execution if that provider has mmap 
handler in its g_class.

-Maxim



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