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From: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Subject: Re: Feasibility of porting Linux filesystem code?
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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