Re: VFS/kernel (was 'gnome')
- From: "Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery hilfy ece cmu edu>
- To: qseep iname com
- cc: Andrew Morton <andrewm uow edu au>, gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: VFS/kernel (was 'gnome')
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 08:19:52 -0500
In message <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812091722070.7945-100000@shells.technojunkie.com>, Q
uantum Seep writes:
+-----
| 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
+--->8
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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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university ["God, root, what is difference?" -Pitr]
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