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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
