When performing IO over network storage (specifically NFS) the process might get stuck in D state. To prevent you main process from becoming unkillable you might prefer to have a slave process do all the risky IO. This is what ioprocess is for.
- Small memory footprint per call.
- Extensible
- Easy integration with python and other languages.
To install required packages on rpm based system:
yum builddep ioprocess
For python binding tests you will need tox; python-tox is too old on some systems, but you can get a recent version using pip:
pip install tox