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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:50:11 -0800
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: userspace block driver?
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* Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com) wrote:
> Consider a block device implemented via an SSL network connection.  I 
> don't want to put SSL in the kernel, which means the only other 
> alternative is to pass data to/from a userspace daemon.

Sounds a bit like stunnel + nbd.

thanks,
-chris