I haven't been following this thread too closely, but I was hoping you could clarify something for me. For what does GEOM mean/stand?
Thanks for the clarification, Mike Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Gilbert > writes: > >>>>>> "phk" == phk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >phk> NBD wouldn't be hard to implement on FreeBSD, the easiest way > >phk> would be to write two GEOM modules to do it: a client and a > >phk> server. > > > >phk> No, I don't have time to do that right now, but I will happily > >phk> guide anybody who wants to try. > > > >I would be interested in knowing what you think would be required > >... and some pointers. This sounds like a task I could bite off. > > First, find out what protocol you will use. If nothing else stay > compatible with Linux (at least as an option if what they use suck > too much). > > Then write a userland server and client so you have something to > test against. > > Then write the kernel-client. There are two bits of this, one is > the network part, one is the GEOM part. > > Julian proposed using netgraph for the network part, I'm not sure > I agree with that idea, I think it would be more efficient to just > make a kthread and go directly on the socket. I can't see what > netgraph would add in this case, except a lot of code doing nothing > but getting in the way. > > Once your kernel client can actually send a request and receive > the reply, we will tack it onto GEOM. > > >From there I expect doing the kernel server is pretty much the > same, just the other way around :-) > > -- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------- SIUE Web Mail To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
