Done. mmap was successful. Is it a good idea to mmap a block device. A block device being much bigger than the available virtual address space, I will have to map it multiple times while working on various parts of the block device. BR, Kaustubh On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat@gmail.com> wrote:
yes its fairly possible, go ahead and try it.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Kaustubh Ashtekar <ksashtekar@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All, Is it possible to mmap on a block device? I am writing my own kernel space filesystem on Linux (academic project). I am writing a user space tool to format the block device (again my own ramdisk driver). It would be much simpler if I could just mmap the block device into my address space. -Kaustubh _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies