> :
> :Look into the portal filesystem. This is what you want :)
> :
> : Brian Fundakowski Feldman      _ __ ___ ____  ___ ___ ___  
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> 
>     Actually, it isn't quite.  All the portal filesystem will allow you
>     to do is pass back a descriptor.  It does not allow you to simulate
>     a filesystem.
> 
>     But something similar to what the portal filesystem does would be
>     cool -- maybe a real protocol to pass the VOP requests down to a 
>     user process and get responses & data.

Portal FS did give me a couple of starting points.. It looks interesting.
Just for my own clarification... how would this be different than NFS
(specifically local NFS)?

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