hi :) On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:37:21AM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote: > The thing is - you're fighting a deployment battle, and if this is the > only technique, we arrive at a situation where Gnome will only run well > on brand-new and/or 'development' kernels. We also create the burden of > maintaining / back-porting potentially large kernel patches into every > distro / vendor's kernel. i'm not at all suggesting to use kernel patches! in fact, i proposed to solve the problem in userspace, but using the normal operating system interface to access the vfs-daemon (or whatever). every unix system should be able to mount nfs volumes. so an userspace nfs server should be portable over a wide range of systems. the advantage is that _every_ application can simply use open/read/write to operate on vfs. however, unix/nfs semantics may not match vfs semantics. building a useful mapping to nfs will be the hard part, i guess. there may be other possibilities to implement file systems in userspace, nfs is just one that i can think of atm. -- CU, / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany Martin Waitz // Department of Computer Science 3 _________ ______________/// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - /// dies ist eine manuell generierte mail, sie beinhaltet // tippfehler und ist auch ohne grossbuchstaben gueltig. /
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