k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes: >I had a similar thought ... seems like it would be a reasonable idea to me. >Perhaps even some variation of the vnd driver to allow it to access >hardware partitions, rather than only files.
I once tried to make vnd work on VBLK "files", but there were some locking issues. I think, before we start into such an excercise, we should better put time and energy into improving the VFS and buffer cache layers. -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."