From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: "Thomas S. Iversen" <zensonic@zensonic.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to do IO across hardsector boundries
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 10:53:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091350388.2816.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <410C37B7.3010504@zensonic.dk>
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On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 02:22, Thomas S. Iversen wrote:
> Hi There
>
> As part of an assignment I am trying to port a piece of software from
> FreeBSD to linux. Essentially this software (crypto) makes a virtual
> blockdevice with "virtual" sectors on top. Under FreeBSD these virtual
> sectors are just read/written using a simple command:
I can recommend that you look at the Device Mapper layer and consider
porting your code to that, it's designed to take care of some of the
hard work for you for usages like this.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-01 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-01 0:22 Thomas S. Iversen
2004-07-31 23:32 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-01 8:53 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-08-01 13:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
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