On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 01:41 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > IIUC, the suggestion from James to implement ATAPI translates in > user-space terms to implementing respective ioctl's, because this is what > nbd gets, and this is what nbd-server has to reproduce. Actually, no, that's not what I was thinking. nbd currently only understands the block layer REQ_CMD (which are basic READ/WRITE commands) if it understood REQ_BLOCK_PC it would probably be sufficient a transport for sending the packet commands that are necessary to drive a remote device. The idea being that you could then do cdrom - nbd <--\/\-->remote - ide/scsi - CD-ROM device to drive an actual cdrom. There are some pieces missing in this vision (like how to attach cdrom to nbd) but it should be doable in principle. James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
