On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 09:20:19AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
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> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:30:32PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >> Yeah, compared to loopback over FUSE, anything would have less
> >> problem. :-) I don't know much about nbd but it's pretty much solving
> >> the same problem so I think it's logical to extend nbd including
> >> giving it a new transport if necessary?  Or is there something
> >> fundamentally better when it's done via FUSE?
> >
> > My gutt feeling is that it would have less overhead when done via FUSE
> > than through nbd, but that could be wrong.
> >
> > Mike
> 
> What I would hope is that BUSE would add some zero copy transport in
> there. A way to just redirect the BIOs from the BUSE device to other
> block devices without copying the data around.
> 
> But maybe BUSE is a bad name for that. That would be more a DUSE -
> Device mapper in USEr space.

That already exists. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DmUserspace

Mike
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