Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:12:05 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: UVFS Yet another user space filesystem kit. |
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Hi!
> I would like to announce the availability of version 0.1 of UVFS, yet > another user space filesystem kit. UVFS provide an interface to almost all > kernel VFS methods in user space with acceptable overhead. It comes with a > sample in memory filesystem as documentation. > > As far as I can determine UVFS is quite robust but I would love to have some > independent confirmation of that. I would also be delighted if someone more > familiar with the linux VFS than I, were to give the code a once-over. > > The current version of UVFS only supports a single instance of a given > filesystem type. That will be addressed in the next public release. > > UVFS can be found at http://www.sciencething.org/geekthings/index.html .
How do you solve deadlocks on writing?
[Imagine so many dirty buffers are in memory that your filesystem-in-userspace-daemon was swapped out?]
[Miklos, Cc-ed to you. You have that problem too. And it probably has same solution like those untrusted filesystems -- back it up by a file.] Pavel
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