[RFC PATCH] nvmet: Back namespace with files

Keith Busch keith.busch at intel.com
Wed Mar 8 14:15:28 PST 2017


On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:35:19PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Wrong kind of interface - this needs to use vfs_iter_read/write
> of type ITER_BVEC.

Gotchya, that's what I was locking for. Thanks for the pointer.

> And before merging anything I'd really like to see how this is
> an improvement over simply using the loop device.

This is a step toward getting namespace management. It's easy to create
namespaces if they're files.



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