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PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2024 4:01 am    Post subject: July 27, '09 Linux Kernel Podcast Reply with quote
I'm getting to where I'm really digging twitter. Am finding lots of interesting things like this:
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Abuse. We’ve seen filesystems in userspace, character devices in userspace, and even generic interrupt abstractions (from Thomas Gleixner). Now it seems only logical that we would also receive the blessing that is a block device layer implemented in…userspace. Zachary Amsden posted an (RFC) patch implementing such a scary notion. The interface uses ioctl()s to create the device, then passes bios to and from the kernel. I hate to think what’ll happen if someone tries to do swap-on-userspace block devices and runs into low memory situations. If this ever merges, there’ll be a lot of caveats. But Kudos to Zachary for getting this discussion going – I’m sure there’ll be a nice Linux Weekly News summary of the design if it persists.

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