From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 11 4:30:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EDC37B401 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 04:30:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ams-msg-core-1.cisco.com (ams-msg-core-1.cisco.com [144.254.74.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D6C43E4A for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 04:30:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from molter@tin.it) Received: from cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ams-msg-core-1.cisco.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBBCSjvM027975 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:28:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from www.example.org (dhcp-nic-val-26-98.cisco.com [64.103.26.98]) by cisco.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA20633 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:30:06 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 13024 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Dec 2002 09:04:07 -0000 Message-ID: <20021211090406.13023.qmail@cobweb.example.org> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:04:06 +0100 From: Marco Molteni To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: kernel/userland ssh filesystem for FreeBSD? X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, as you might know, both kde (via kio-fish) and gnome (via gnome virtual file system) provide a userland filesystem-like API that allows to "mount" a remote filesystem using ssh. What I don't like about those solutions is that they require the application to use a particular API (kio slave or gnome vfs). Another approach, that provides a real filesystem interface, is the Linux Userspace File System. Quoting from http://lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs/intro.html: LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting an indefinite number of filesystems transparently for any application. It consists of a kernel module and an userspace daemon. Basically it delegates most of the VFS calls to a specialized daemon which handles them. Now the question: if I wanted to do something similar for FreeBSD, how would I do it? Any high-level hints? thanks Marco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message