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From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Block device driver via TCP/IP
Summary: A simple remote file system using a block device driver over TCP/IP
Keywords: Block NFS TCP/IP Device
Message-ID: <467@lysator.liu.se>
Date: 4 Jan 91 19:05:27 GMT
Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
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Organization: Lysator Computer Club, Linkoping University, Sweden
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I was thinking of trying to write a block device driver that will
talk with a server process on another machine (via TCP/IP / sockets)
so that I'll be able to mount a file system via this device driver.
(Ie, the server handles the reading and writing on a reserved partition
for the block device driver). Now, before I go ahead with this I thought
I'd ask around to see if someone else has done this before...?

(Why would I do this? Because the first machine (were the block device
driver will reside) hasn't got NFS, and that machine won't work with our
new CDC Wren V disk... So we had to put it on another machine. Unfortunately
the need for more disk space is greater on the first machine...)

Any suggestions?

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Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Computer Club                             ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                               "Seize the day!"