Done. mmap was successful. Is it a good idea to mmap a block device. A block device being much bigger than the available virtual address space, I will have to map it multiple times while working on various parts of the block device.
BR, Kaustubh On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Rajat Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > yes its fairly possible, go ahead and try it. > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Kaustubh Ashtekar <[email protected]> > 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 > > [email protected] > > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > > > >
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