yes its fairly possible, go ahead and try it. On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Kaustubh Ashtekar <ksashtekar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello All, > Is it possible to mmap on a block device? I am writing my own kernel space > filesystem on Linux (academic project). I am writing a user space tool to > format the block device (again my own ramdisk driver). It would be much > simpler if I could just mmap the block device into my address space. > -Kaustubh > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies