Re: blktap2 implementation in NetBSD

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:52:39PM +0200, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm doing some research about how to implement something similar to
> the blktap2 Linux driver on NetBSD, to be able to use different image
> formats (other than raw). I've read on other threads that blktap will
> be implemented using puffs on NetBSD, but I'm not able to see how is
> that possible, since puffs does not provide a block devices. I've read
> about RUMP, and it seems it would be best to implement the driver
> using RUMP, and maybe when it's finished include it in the kernel, but
> I'm not sure if it's the best way to implement it, could someone give
> me some advice or status about this project?

Have a look at pkgsrc/net/netbsd-iscsi-initiator, it's a block device
implemented in userland.

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