Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:40:05 -0700 From: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Cc: Aaron Smith <aaron@veritas.com>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feasibility of porting Linux filesystem code? Message-ID: <33565265.48AA@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970417142635.22582A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
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Michael Hancock wrote: > > 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. > Yes, I was following this thread on the fs list, but it abruptly disappeared (as the rest of the list :-) ?), as John Heidemann didn't reply publicly. > 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. I didn't know about that, he said he had replaced the SUN specific things...are the additional APIs SYSV-like ? FreeBSD 3.0 is turning out to be very sysv like this days. Pedro. > > Regards, > > Mike
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