2. User Manual

The User Manual describes BDUS’ capabilities and API for driver development, and provides useful information on block devices in general.

Other parts of the documentation:

• The Quick Start Guide, introducing block devices and BDUS;

• The Developer Manual, detailing BDUS’ internals and contribution procedures.

Contents

• 2.1. Installation – everything about installing and uninstalling BDUS;

• 2.2. Block devices – an overview of the block device abstraction under Linux;

• 2.3. Developing drivers – how to develop block device drivers using BDUS;

• 2.4. API reference – a complete reference of BDUS’ driver development API;

• 2.5. Versions – BDUS’ versioning scheme, backward compatibility, and version history;

• 2.6. Licensing – details on BDUS’ licensing model.