On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Boris Popov wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, David E. Cross wrote:
> > I am looking at a project that will require a user based process to interact
> > with the system as if it were a filesystem. The traditional way I have seen
>
> That type of file system is very useful for simple tasks. A while
> ago I'm experementing with 'IPX network browser' which shows NetWare
> servers as directories and allows to go down to see volumes, print queues
> etc.
> It would be nice if we're have something like 'userfs' (or
> 'daemonfs') with unified interface and mount command like this:
>
> # mount_user /mydaemon /mountpoint
>
> so, all that I need to create a new file system is to write
> 'mydaemon' program.
Great idea. I liked it so much I bought the company -- er, I mean, I wrote
something like this. It's private name spaces for Linux and FreeBSD (among
others) and it allows you to mount things from remote file servers into
your name space.
There's a technical paper at www.acl.lanl.gov/~rminnich that is a brief
overview. I'll get longer technical papers and such out there this week I
hope.
Writing servers is pretty easy, I have two reference implementations. In
fact one server is a .c file plus a server library, so the actual server
is quite small.
Remaining task is to get a VFS for FreeBSD. The v9fs is a start but I need
help getting the rest done. It's pretty easy to do though -- I was amazed
at how quickly the Linux version went once I had a v9fs-like VFS for
Linux.
If interested let me know.
ron
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