Re: VFS/kernel (was 'gnome')

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery hilfy ece cmu edu>]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812091722070.7945-100000@shells.technojunkie.com>, Q
uantum Seep writes:
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| Is it possible/reasonable to design VFS into a kernel so that the actual
| filesystems could be user-level processes which talked to the kernel?  Then
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Take a look at Linux unfsd.  It's not at all unusual to have user-space 
filesystems using the NFS interface these days.  And it keeps the cruft out of 
the kernel, since the NFS interface is already there.

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