David,
Unless I am misunderstanding you, mfs does what you are
describing.
--John
"David E. Cross" <cro...@cs.rpi.edu> 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
> this done is as the system NFS mounting itself (ala AMD). I would really lik
e
> a more clean approach to this. What I am interested in is a 'User Space
> File System' that would interact with a user process in a similiar manor
> to how nfsd's do. A process would issue a mount (ok, this is different than
> NFSDs), then it would make a special system call with a structure, that
> call would return whenever a request was pending with the structure filled in
> with the appropriate information. The user process would fulfill the request
,
> pack the return data into the structure and call kernel again.
>
> I have a number of questions on more specific ideas (like caching, inode/vnod
e
> interaction, etc). But I am just feeling arround for what people think
> about this. Any ideas/comments?
>
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