On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:04:06AM +0100, Marco Molteni wrote: > Hi, > > as you might know, both kde (via kio-fish) and gnome (via gnome virtual > file system) provide a userland filesystem-like API that allows to "mount" a > remote filesystem using ssh. What I don't like about those solutions is > that they require the application to use a particular API (kio slave or > gnome vfs). > > Another approach, that provides a real filesystem interface, is the > Linux Userspace File System. > > Quoting from http://lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs/intro.html: > > LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting an indefinite > number of filesystems transparently for any application. It consists of > a kernel module and an userspace daemon. Basically it delegates most of > the VFS calls to a specialized daemon which handles them. > > Now the question: if I wanted to do something similar for FreeBSD, how > would I do it? Any high-level hints?
Take a look at mount_portal(8). G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 When you are not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish.
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