From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 16 22:42:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA09788 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:42:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA09782 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:42:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.5/CET-v2.1) with SMTP id FAA22745; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 05:41:31 GMT Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:41:31 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Pedro Giffuni cc: Aaron Smith , Terry Lambert , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feasibility of porting Linux filesystem code? In-Reply-To: <3355B7A4.4C01@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > My proposal is as follows. > 1) Since it's not clear anyone, other than Terry, wants the changes now, > we should give a time to work on other things, including some code John > Heidemann offered on the filesystems list. John H. is packaging some utok stuff for me written for SunOS for use in out of kernel development. We might have to do a custom ktou and transport layer to use it. They used NFS for the transport layer in their Ficus project, but it depends on a userland NFS server to work. We will also have to do some kernel api emulation. I'll have to talk to John Dyson and others to see if that is even feasible for all the calls the fs code needs to make. Regards, Mike