GEOM Gate.

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

Hello hackers...

I've done something what will be called GEOM Gate.
This software provide disk devices mounting through the network.

	http://garage.freebsd.pl/geom_gate.tbz

Installation is quite trivial:

	# tar -jvxf geom_gate.tbz
	# cd geom_gate
	# make
	# make install

For example we got two machine: 'client' and 'server' and we want to mount
device /dev/ad0s1a from 'server' machine on 'client' machine.

	server# ggd -f /dev/ad0s1a

	client# kldload geom_gate
	client# ggc -a -h 'server' -s sizeof(/dev/ad0s1a) -u 5
	client# mount /dev/gg5 /mnt/foo

And that's all.

Of course we can also export files and treat them as devices:

	server# truncate -s 256M test.img
	server# ggd -f ./test.img -p 1234

	client# ggc -a -h 'server' -p 1234 -s 256M -u 6
	client# newfs -O2 -U /dev/gg6
	client# mount /dev/gg6 /mnt/bar

This isn't finished yet, so it also isn't bugs free.
For example don't try to run client and server stuff on this same machine,
this could case a deadlock.

Comments, etc. are of course welcome.

-- 
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       pawel at dawidek.net
UNIX Systems Programmer/Administrator     http://garage.freebsd.pl
Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!                     http://cerber.sourceforge.net
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