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,
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>  Peter Desnoyers                                  [email protected]
>  Northeastern Computer & Information Science      (617) 373-8683
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