>is there an API for writing block device drivers in userland ?

i don`t know if there is some in vanilla, but maybe dm-userspace is worth taking a look at ?
see http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DmUserspace

regards
roland




List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    block devices in userland
From:       Enrico Weigelt <weigelt () metux ! de>
Date:       2008-07-04 22:11:28
Message-ID: 20080704221127.GA25636 () nibiru ! local
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Hi folks,


is there an API for writing block device drivers in userland ?


thx
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