Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 22:23:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USFS (User Space File System) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907172219500.1891-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199907180033.RAA86259@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :
> :Look into the portal filesystem. This is what you want :)
> :
> : Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___
> : green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \
>
> Actually, it isn't quite. All the portal filesystem will allow you
> to do is pass back a descriptor. It does not allow you to simulate
> a filesystem.
Maybe I didn't read the original e-mail that well. But with descriptors,
can't you fork off individual handlers for each fd? Make a user-land FS
that way? I never investigated it, except noticing the neat things it does
with the portal daemon.
>
> But something similar to what the portal filesystem does would be
> cool -- maybe a real protocol to pass the VOP requests down to a
> user process and get responses & data.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon@backplane.com>
>
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