Going from struct disk to a fh?
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 14 21:22:23 UTC 2010
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 9:08:50 am Sam Robb wrote:
> In the kernel, given a struct disk, is there a way to turn that into
something that can be used to read/write from the disk? Or is my best bet in
this situation to figure out the device path for the disk, and just use
kern_open() to access it?
You can use dp->d_geom as the target of a bio via GEOM I think. However, I
don't have experience with sending bio's to a specific GEOM directly. File
systems usually use geom_vfs to feed requests from bread(), etc. to a mounted
disk device using a devfs vnode for the associated disk device.
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John Baldwin
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