On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 20:55, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 08:53:44PM +0200, David Zeuthen wrote: > > FWIW, it works on my Liteon CDRW drive (only drive I tested). Jens > > Axboe, seems a bit more confident in the availability of this > > > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0308.3/0511.html > > > > so much in fact that he, uhmm, thinks magicdev should use it. > > If it works sure. Ultimately I'd like to find a clean way to do a volumagic > like thing with the I/O layer in kernel space. Let the daemon do handle > translations and let the kernel do the I/O paths > Wouldn't it suffice with just an option to mount(1), e.g. have as few changes to how this impact user space as possible. I mean, at the end of the day, isn't this just about the kernel locking/unlocking the drive (same for e.g. USB storage) only when there is I/O? Thanks, David
