Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:29:50 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "ALeine" <aleine@austrosearch.net> Cc: ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE Message-ID: <11399.1109885390@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:51:32 PST." <200503022251.j22MpWSg085574@marlena.vvi.at>
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In message <200503022251.j22MpWSg085574@marlena.vvi.at>, "ALeine" writes: >phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: > >> I can not encourage you enough to try it. >> >> Don't let peole like Thor scare you away, progress happens when >> people try to follow their ideas, even if told that they are fools by >> people who (think they) know better. > >Thor? Who is Thor? :-> Seriously, this discussion is only making me >more eager to implement my ideas, I know exactly what I want to >implement, it just might take me more time than you seasoned kernel >programmers who live the code. :-) Start out doing it in userland, it's much easier to work with. In FreeBSD we have something called "geom-gate" which allows you to implement disks in userland. I'm sure something similar exists or can be trivially created in your favourite OS. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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