Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 12:20:28 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM Gate committed! Message-ID: <20040504122028.59988e1b@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20040503215523.GU24376@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <20040503215523.GU24376@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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On Mon, 3 May 2004 23:55:23 +0200
Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Thing to note: ggated(8) is absolutely GEOM-unaware and not FreeBSD
> specific at all. It is a simple network daemon that opens given device
> or file and read from/write to it, that's all. So it should be really
> trivial to port it to other operating systems and exports disk devices
> from them.
If I export a device (e.g. /dev/vinum/a_lot_of_space) rw via ggated, am
I allowed to mount it locally too (e.g. for exporting it via samba too)?
>From what you told above I don't think so. Would it be hard to make this
possible? What about more than one client which accesses a device in rw
mode?
Do you intend to MFC ggated (or to make it a separate tarball, to make
it more easy to use it on different systems too)?
Bye,
Alexander.
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