Re: Passthrough block device

2003-10-26 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Sean Hamilton wrote this message on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 15:40 -0700: > Does FreeBSD support a device that will allow for the passing of all reads > and writes on it to a userland application? I wish to handle swapping > myself, preferably without any kernel hacking. Take a look at geom_gate fro

Re: Passthrough block device

2003-10-25 Thread David Schultz
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003, Sean Hamilton wrote: > Does FreeBSD support a device that will allow for the passing of all reads > and writes on it to a userland application? I wish to handle swapping > myself, preferably without any kernel hacking. > > What would happen if the kernel decided to swap o

Passthrough block device

2003-10-22 Thread Sean Hamilton
Does FreeBSD support a device that will allow for the passing of all reads and writes on it to a userland application? I wish to handle swapping myself, preferably without any kernel hacking. What would happen if the kernel decided to swap out such a process? _