On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > You mean backend? For networking it makes a great deal of sense. For
> > block it makes far less sense (COW, weird formats, etc).
>
> For block you probably want both: userspace driver which can handle all
> sorts of funny image files, and a kernel driver doing a 1:1 mapping to a
> block device (lvm volume).
>
Interestingly, once you have the kernel driver that maps a block device,
you can do most of the useful user scenarios by means of /dev/loop
and/or device mapper.
Arnd <><
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