Re: netbsd version of compressed caching

On Dec,Saturday 13 2008, at 12:53 AM, Selcuk AYA wrote:

> Here is my initial thoughts about how things should be done:
>
> a) The whole thing will be a pseudo block device driver implemented as
> an lkm. Block size of the device will be set to the page size so that
> IO will be done in page aligned and page sized blocks.  Size of the
> device will be the number of pages that the block device is configured
> to compress. The size can be set through an ioctl command.


Now when haad-dm was merged you can probably try to use device-mapper  
driver
[sys/dev/dm] to implement pseudo block device.

Regards

Adam.