On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Michael McCormack wrote:
> it's been pretty quiet lately... i think the guy who wrote userfs
> (hello Jeremy) has given up on the idea, and it is lacking a maintainer. If
> you have a look at his web page, he listed all the reasons that he liked it
> but has given up on it. One of them was that it was too closely tied to the
> kernel and it constantly had to be updated to keep in sync with kernel
> changes.
hrmm... k. thanks.
a while ago i started messing with the idea of an ftp file system, and i
realized that it would be much easier to have the ftp code in a user
process than in kernel space... and out of this idea, combined with some
work i was doing for a professor here, came the idea of a user space file
system for linux. it wasn't until later that i discovered that there is
already a userfs.
hrmm... well, since it's only an undergraduate project, and since it's
giving me a good chance to learn about kernel coding while at the same
time earning academic credit, i'll continue it for now. my approach seems
to be kind of different from the userfs approach, and who knows...
something useful may come of it...
anyway, i was just curious if userfs was still doing anything, because the
only thing i could find related to it was the ALPHA directory on metalab,
which was last touched in '97...
thanks,
-- Pete Rijks
http://www.nd.edu/~prijks/ \|/
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering -*-
University of Notre Dame (Class of 2000) /|\
