I'm using the PerlFS kernel module with a userspace Java engine that
I wrote. Back when I started this (about 18 months ago), I was not
able to get userfs in any kind of usable state. The current status
of my JavaFS engine is workable. I have two working example filesystems
and a third in progress. The protocol that Claudio created for PerFS is
easy to understand and implement (I never looked at userfs' since I could
not get it to compile); it also seems to scale pretty well for larger data
transfers (this is an improvement over previous versions). The kernel
module is small, understandable and works on a variety of kernel versions.
I have not made my work publicly available yet (mostly because I stopped
working on it for about a year), but if anyone's interested I'll put up
a web page. I updated the code recently when I found the PerlFS web pages
again (long story). In short, I'm working on it again.
You can find PerlFS at:
http://www.assurdo.com/perlfs/
Stewart
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
>
> > I just really like the concept of the userfs even if the author says
> > there are problems with it.
>
> Me too. (Have you looked at podfuk or PerlFS, btw? I haven't really
> looked at them, and I'm interested to hear what people think.)
>
