On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Jan Jirmasek wrote:
> The problem is, that userfs is not going to go into the main stream of
> kernel and it means, that a lot of people is not using it anymore.
>
> What userfs brings to us? The possibility of writing user-space device
> drivers, user-space filesystems. It is an interface between VFS functions
> and our specific user-space implementations. The problem is, that in the
> current kernels, there already is such an interface - CODA. The original
> purpose is of course much more versatile (a distributed file system), but
> when I want to write a user-space filesystems (e.g. mailfs, ftpfs, httpfs,
> tarfs, etc.), it's good enough, though it's not so powerful as userfs.
>
> I like the idea of userfs, though I'm not a friend of C++. I'll spend some
> time on looking at the Marc's work and then if nobody else will want to do
> the job of the maintainer, I could perhaps do it some time.
>
> With greetings,
>
> Jim
> .~. Jan Jirm�sek
> /V\ jim(at)penguin.cz, http://www.penguin.cz/~jim
> // \\
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> ^^-^^
Maybe we could come up with a wrapper for CODA or something that was
similar to the C++ interface with USERFS (or does CODA already have a C++
interface)? If so then it might be a good replacement for USERFS????
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