RE: gnome

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

That was me. An NFS server would work perfictly. Plus no program
modifications would be needed. VFS wont work on programs that cant be
modified. Like programs that come with solaris....

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Andrew Morton [SMTP:andrewm@uow.edu.au]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 10, 1998 5:38 AM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: gnome
> 
> Linux' userfs appears to require no kernel changes - it's a module.  As
> such, if it does cause deadlocks then that's its own problem!
> 
> userfs dispatches kernel filesystem requests direct to user mode
> processes.  Several plugins exist, including ftpfs.
> 
> It's badly broken for 2.0.35 and appears to have fallen into disrepair. 
> I'm in the process of finding out why, and what has to be done to it.
> 
> I must say, however, that the idea of implementing a VFS thing within an
> NFS server adaption is quite brilliant.  It'll run on every platform and
> across a network.  Who came up with this one?
> 
> "Michael K. Johnson" wrote:
> > 
> > Damien Miller writes:
> > >A generic userfs might, and GNOME will be able to transparently take
> > >advantage of it if and when it arrives.
> > 
> > Not likely even that.  Linus has (reasonably) outright ruled it out
> > because of the deadlock potential.
> > 
> > You are quite right that putting gnome vfs in the kernel is a rather
> > naive suggestion.
> > 
> > michaelkjohnson
> > 
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