Subject: Re: network-transparent devfs
To: Sascha Retzki <lantis@iqranet.info>
From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/21/2004 22:34:46
* Sascha Retzki <lantis@iqranet.info> [1115 19:15]:
> I have some questions, now we are speaking about devfs:
> 
> How hard would it be, and how usefull it would be, to make devfs completely
> network transparent.
> 
> Some scenarios you can come up with is network-storage computing. An "exported"
> block device, maybe a RAID or a simple harddisk drive that is then bound to a
> raid, everything over network. 
 
 I believe freebsd (current) has this feature in it's geom system.
 
 See:
 
 http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/742
 

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