CAM Target Layer available

[Julian Elischer]

On 1/4/12 8:39 PM, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> The CAM Target Layer (CTL) is now available for testing.  I am planning to
> commit it to to head next week, barring any major objections.
>
> CTL is a disk and processor device emulation subsystem originally written
> for Copan Systems under Linux starting in 2003.  It has been shipping in
> Copan (now SGI) products since 2005.
>
> It was ported to FreeBSD in 2008, and thanks to an agreement between SGI
> (who acquired Copan's assets in 2010) and Spectra Logic in 2010, CTL is
> available under a BSD-style license.  The intent behind the agreement was
> that Spectra would work to get CTL into the FreeBSD tree.
[...]

>   - Note that the ramdisk backend is a "fake" ramdisk.  That is, it is
>     backed by a small amount of RAM that is used for all I/O requests.  This
>     is useful for performance testing, but not for any data integrity tests.

so, If I read this correctly, I should be able to export a fusion-io 
flash card with
ctladm create -b block -o file=/dev/fio0  ??
>   - To add a LUN with the block/file backend:
>
> 	truncate -s +1T myfile
> 	ctladm create -b block -o file=myfile
> 	ctladm port -o on
>