Category Archives: ggate

Writing a GEOM GATE module, part 4

To wrap up this small tutorial on writing ggate modules, I'll describe in brief how the simple implementation of ggvd works. Unfortunately, it has a major limitation in functionality due to a FreeBSD bug but it still may be good enough as an example.

Writing a GEOM GATE module, part 3

This is the third part of my supposedly short GEOM GATE tutorial. In this part I would like to show how to use ggatel and what do I want to do as a brand new GEOM GATE module.

If you missed the previous parts, you should read the first and the second part before this one.

Writing a GEOM GATE module, part 2

This is the second part of my short tutorial on writing a GEOM gate module for FreeBSD. If you missed it, see the first part for an introduction.

In this part, I'd like to talk about some of the mechanisms, ideas and constrains in GEOM and GEOM GATE (ggate).

Writing a GEOM GATE module, part 1

For various reasons, including the common good, I'd like to write a short-ish tutorial about writing GEOM GATE modules for FreeBSD. I hope to do this in a series of a few blog posts, dealing with the steps of writing such a module, this being the first post in the series. Finally, I'd like to do it while also creating a usable module, so this will not be an academic excercise but (hopefully) useful work.

I'd like to start with explaing what GEOM and GEOM GATE are.