Re: Reqst for Information: Loopback device programming

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd_at_daimi.au.dk)
Date: 04/19/05

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    Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:38:16 +0200

    maheshpradhan@fastmail.fm wrote:
    >
    > I am doing an academic project, in which I need to write a loopback
    > device for one of the components. The platform is Linux, Kernel
    > 2.4.x/2.6.x. This device will carry out a transformation on the data
    > before writing it to disk. This needs to be done in an application
    > transparent manner.
    > I request you to point me to some tutorials, sample code etc which
    > could
    > be useful for this work.

    For initial experiments I think writing an nbd server in
    user mode and then using the nbd driver to access it is
    the easiest way to get started. 

    -- 
Kasper Dupont
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