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..
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: > >On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, David Gilbert wrote: > >> it doesn't work that way. the result of NBD is a /dev/nbd0 not a > >> filesystem. Block 0 of /dev/nbd0 is block 0 of /dev/hda1 (say). nbd > >> runs as a server on the node with the disk and as a client on the node > >> using the disk. Yes, you still stripe on the client side... but you > >> stripe across directly mapped block devices (no NFS involved). > > > >So involving NFS isn't really going to make that much of a difference. > > Yes, it sure would. > > NBD wouldn't be hard to implement on FreeBSD, the easiest way would > be to write two GEOM modules to do it: a client and a server. > > No, I don't have time to do that right now, but I will happily > guide anybody who wants to try. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
