Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:03:08 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: phk@freebsd.org, David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network block device. Message-ID: <20030129195434.L8642@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301291555570.25856-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301291555570.25856-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Julian Elischer wrote: > geom meets netgraph.. :-) > > You could possibly do something with the ng_device node that exports a > device into teh dev namesapce from netgraph. (the version in the tree is > curently broken, the author is rewrituing it..) Adding a geom top-end > to it might give you something quite cute.. Slightly modify NFS to allow you to "export" a device. Since the NFS code already allows you to mount remote 'files' you're good to go. Congradulations you've got your NBD and you only spent 2 hours (if that) on it. Jesus people... If you've got this much free time, implement something that will actually be USEFUL over a wide variety of problem sets like SCSI over IP. Hacking around implementing anything else from scratch is a waste of time. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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