--- title: Block Devices In User Space | daily.dev description: Ublk is a framework that allows developers to write Linux block device drivers in user space rather than kernel space. Using the io_uring facility in recent... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/block-devices-in-user-space-0oo0z2s5h twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Block Devices In User Space | daily.dev og:description: Ublk is a framework that allows developers to write Linux block device drivers in user space rather than kernel space. Using the io_uring facility in recent... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/block-devices-in-user-space-0oo0z2s5h og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0oo0Z2s5H.png og:image:alt: Block Devices In User Space og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Block Devices In User Space **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Ublk is a framework that allows developers to write Linux block device drivers in user space rather than kernel space. Using the io_uring facility in recent kernels, it enables driver development in any programming language with standard libraries, simplified debugging, and safer crash handling. The ublk_drv kernel driver handles block device management and relays I/O requests to user-space code. While not as performant as native kernel drivers, it's useful for rapid prototyping of custom block devices like exotic RAID schemes or virtual devices backed by multiple files. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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