Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Nov 1999 01:16:02 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Userspace filesystem implementation for loopback devices only [was CBMFS] |
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Hans de Goede wrote: > Thus I've been thinking about something called userspace fs.
Have a look at podfuk, which is exactly that. It provides the vfs from midnight commander as a filesystem, using the CODA kernel hooks.
> Implement this userspacefs as an nfs-server then we would need no kernel > mods except for the cd into trick.
I have done some work on that. NFS is yucky -- you can't tell when someone has finished reading a file, for example. But it's very widespread so the problem is interesting.
An older version of podfuk used the user space NFS server but apparently that caused all sort of problems. I think an NFS server designed for the job addresses most of the problems, but I haven't finished writing one yet...
-- Jamie
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