Re: RAIT device driver feasibility

[Ludovic Drolez <ludovic.drolez@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-01-13 at 15:42, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
>
> > RAIT already exists in Amanda, in user space, but I'd like to see a generic 
> > kernel RAIT driver which could be used by any backup program.
>
>
> Why kernel space - why not a user space shared library you can add to
> other tape apps?

A shared library which would override read(), write() in the program ? Why not...

But do you think you can chain/bounce, ioctl(), read(), writes from a char 
driver to another ?

Regards,

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