Hi Peter, Just curious. Are you looking for device-mapper in userland like FUSE? Akira On 2016/08/04 6:46, Peter Desnoyers wrote: > We’re developing an SMR translation layer in a device mapper target, and we’d like to keep a lot of the complexity (recovery at startup, parts of the garbage collection algorithm) in user space. > > I was wondering what people’s thoughts are on the best strategy for the user/kernel interface here? > > We’re currently doing something quite gross - using a /proc file with a simple protocol based on reading and writing fixed-sized binary messages. For our purposes this works fairly well, but clearly we need something cleaner if we want this to go anywhere. > > Thanks, > ..................................................................... > Peter Desnoyers pjd@xxxxxxxxxxx > Northeastern Computer & Information Science (617) 373-8683 > > > -- > dm-devel mailing list > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel > -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
