package mirage-block-ramdisk

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In-memory BLOCK device for MirageOS

Install

Dune Dependency

Authors

Maintainers

Sources

mirage-block-ramdisk-0.4.tbz
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Description

  • Can be dynamically resized
  • Supports querying sparseness information

Tags

org:mirage

Published: 26 Jun 2019

README

mirage-block-ramdisk

A simple in-memory BLOCK device.

Please see the API documentation.

Features

  • Can be dynamically resized

  • Supports querying sparseness information

Example usage

In a top-level like utop:

# #require "io-page.unix";;
# #require "mirage-block";;
# #require "mirage-block-ramdisk";;
# #require "lwt.syntax";;

# lwt t_or_error = Ramdisk.create ~name:"hello" ~size_sectors:1024L ~sector_size:512;;
val t_or_error : [ `Error of Ramdisk.error | `Ok of Ramdisk.t ] = `Ok <abstr>

# let t = Mirage_block.Error.ok_exn t_or_error;;
val t : Ramdisk.t = <abstr>

# let page = Io_page.(to_cstruct (get 1));;
val page : Ramdisk.page_aligned_buffer =
  {Cstruct.buffer = <abstr>; off = 0; len = 4096}

# lwt result_or_error = Ramdisk.read t 0L [ page ];;
val result_or_error : [ `Error of Ramdisk.error | `Ok of unit ] = `Ok ()

Dev Dependencies (2)

  1. io-page-unix with-test
  2. alcotest with-test & < "1.4.0"

Used by (4)

  1. mirage-block < "1.0.0"
  2. qcow != "0.10.0"
  3. qcow-format
  4. qcow-tool

Conflicts

None