Bug#1051678:

2023-10-09 Thread Raul Cheleguini 
Packaging effort is being tracked at:
https://salsa.debian.org/rcheleguini/ubdsrv

In the meantime, we also +1 the request asking for the kernel module:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1032604

Bug#1051678: RFP: ublksrv -- Daemon and library for user-space block devices

2023-09-11 Thread Ben Hutchings 
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: ublksrv
  Version : 1.1-rc1
  Upstream Contact: Ming Lei < tom.leim...@gmail.com>
* URL : https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv
* License : GPL-2, LGPL-2.1, MIT
  Programming Lang: C++, C
  Description : Support for Linux user-space block devices

This is the user-space code that works with the ublk driver introduced
in Linux 6.0.  There is a daemon to handle requests and a library for
writing individual user-space block drivers.  It includes drivers for
loop, nbd, and qcow2 block devices.