On 5/30/06, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > A couple of recent developments: > > First working version of DTrace for FreeBSD has been released: > > http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/05/29/1144234.shtml Ack. And is there DTrace for Linux too ? The closest useful link I found was http://librenix.com/?inode=7983 that talks about running "native Linux applications in a 'Linux branded zone' under OpenSolaris".
> > ZFS is being ported to Linux as a FUSE Plugin. This avoids the > conflict with GPL: > The license mess will be the ruin of OSS :( > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bonwick?entry=zfs_on_fuse_linux > > For those who are not familiar with FUSE, it stands for Filesystem > In Userspace. Essentially it is a framework that allows filesystem > modules to be written as ordinary plugin libraries instead of > fiddling with Kernel internals. The framework provides for > the filesystem calls in the Kernel to be redirected to va normal > userspace library. This allows a variety of interesting stuff like > mounting a Website as a filesystem via HTTP-FUSE! There is > even a Linux LiveCD that uses HTTP-FUSE to pull filesystem > data from from a remote website, if you have a network connection. > Uhh.. radical stuff ! > See: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ > > In addition there is an OpenSolaris project to port FUSE to > OpenSolaris: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fuse/ > ACk. I was going to ask you for this link, but Ihave it now :) > Regards, > Moinak. > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
