> : > :Look into the portal filesystem. This is what you want :) > : > : Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ > : gr...@freebsd.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ > > 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)? -- David Cross | email: cro...@cs.rpi.edu Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, | Ph: 518.276.2860 Department of Computer Science | Fax: 518.276.4033 I speak only for myself. | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
