Optional mmap(2) support for geom(4) providers
Ivan Voras
ivoras at fer.hr
Mon May 15 10:11:33 PDT 2006
Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> I am not sure that I understand what do you mean. In the case of md(4)
> mmap makes huge sense, since for preloaded images your disk in fact is
> just range of kernel memory, so that doing mmap is trivial.
You're right. I was thinking of making mmap() of "raw" devices possible
(like it is in Linux), but I see that it would be extremely nontrivial
:) (block devices on Linux...)
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