Subject: Re: vnd: improving support for compressed images
To: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
From: Dieter Baron <dillo@danbala.tuwien.ac.at>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/30/2007 00:43:44
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:26:44PM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 03:39:39PM +0200, Dieter Baron wrote:
> > 3) create a pass-to-userspace disk framework (like puffs, but for
> >    disks) and implement everything in user space.
> 
> FYI, as part of the development for the NetBSD iSCSI initiator,
> I've started down this route, and have some initial code running
> (although it doesn't do much to write home about as yet).

  Sounds great, I'm looking forward to it.

> In keeping with pooka's food theme, I've called it "pud", the
> pass-to-userspace device.

  Oh, I was going to call it pud, too, only it would have meant
pass-to-userspace disk.

						yours,
						dillo