From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Apr 14 7:53:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu (daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu [129.64.3.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C9AC37B7A2 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:53:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from meshko@daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu) Received: from localhost (meshko@localhost) by daedalus.cs.brandeis.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA30634; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:53:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:53:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Kruk To: Michael Chin-Yuan Wu Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: userland nfs In-Reply-To: <002001bfa60b$69d3c300$d60b1b18@austin.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Michael Chin-Yuan Wu wrote: > | I am looking for a topic for senior thesis and came up with an idea of a > | file sharing tool, something like nfs which would have the following > | properties: > | * run as a userland process without root privileges > | * allow different sharing modes (e.g. async, locks, cvs/coda-style with > | merging, may be something else) > > You do realize that there exists applications for each of the things > you want? All you have to do is integrate them. Well, I am aware of the ACLs implementation for various Unix file systems Not so sure about sharing files without running something like nfs. Can you point me at some examples? > | * support for ACLs > | * support for multiple daemons on the same host, i.e. if two users want to > | share their files at the same time their servers will cooperate > > * support for non-English languages may be... it would depend on the underlying system support for the localized characters in file names, right? > | Of course I am thinking of implementing it on FreeBSD (though as user > | process it should not depend on OS/kernel) > > Um... Coda? Samba? :) well, Coda is on the whole different level. It's a file system, not a high level sharing tool. And samba is just for compatability with MS protocols... So i guess what I am talking about is a bit different. No? thanks for response :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message