On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tapan Chaudhari wrote: > > Thanks Deniel for the reply. I am aware of the fact you mentioned > > and will keep in mind. > > Well what i am trying to achieve is a simple thing to write an > > interception driver to catch all the i/os going to a particular > > device, do some manipulations on it and than let it through to the > > original device. Well as you mentioned about geom, I have recently > > posted a mail on GEOM mailing list as I could not find geom doing > > interception, the discussion is still on (You can see the mails with > > subject line "Can GEOM be used to intercept the I/o calls to an > > existing mounted device?"). Any sugessuions on interception driver > > will be helpful? > > My first question would be "Why do you want to do that?" I am planning to write a block level snapshot driver. > > > > As an interception driver is not possible, for time being I am going > > towards the redirection concept which will require a reboot and > > changing the devices on the mount points. For redirection driver, I > > dont think I will need geom. I can directly create a new device. > > Rather I think it would be an overhead using geom for a virtual > > device. > > Any thoughts on both the issues? > > I think you'd have a lower overhead and much less hassle writing a GEOM > class and using that. > This sounds good. I will try using GEOM first. But if I could achieve interception, as I described earlier, I will go for that rather than redirection. > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
