There's already (at least a few) ftp filesystems, if you're at all interested
in not writing yet another. Search for podfuk (I kid you not!).
Sam
Previously, you (Pete Rijks) wrote:
> 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 -*-
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