Subject: RE: vnd: improving support for compressed images
To: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
From: De Zeurkous <zeurkous@nichten.info>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/29/2007 21:36:43
Haai,
On Fri, June 29, 2007 21:26, Alistair Crooks wrote:
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> As well as the iSCSI initiator development, I can see it as being
> useful for other things, vnd fun being one of them, as you note. LVM
> and other interesting ideas like expanding it to be network-aware
> spring to mind.
Again, why not expand the portald with a few more sets of methods (like
'vfs', and 'block')? It would be far more general than inventing a new
kernel<->luserland mechanism for every application where the need happens
to arise...
Baai,
De Zeurkous
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Friggin' Machines!
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> Regards,
> Alistair
>