From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 11 4:35:20 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 CD43537B401 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 04:35:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (office.sbnd.net [217.75.140.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6941343EC5 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 04:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 906 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Dec 2002 12:34:45 -0000 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:34:44 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Marco Molteni Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel/userland ssh filesystem for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20021211123444.GI3860@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Marco Molteni , hackers@freebsd.org References: <20021211090406.13023.qmail@cobweb.example.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0NB0lE7sNnW8+0qW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021211090406.13023.qmail@cobweb.example.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 --0NB0lE7sNnW8+0qW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:04:06AM +0100, Marco Molteni wrote: > Hi, >=20 > 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). >=20 > Another approach, that provides a real filesystem interface, is the > Linux Userspace File System. >=20 > Quoting from http://lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs/intro.html: >=20 > LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting an indefin= ite > 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. >=20 > Now the question: if I wanted to do something similar for FreeBSD, how > would I do it? Any high-level hints? Take a look at mount_portal(8). G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 When you are not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish. --0NB0lE7sNnW8+0qW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE99zDk7Ri2jRYZRVMRAhR4AKCbZfGN+kWw0nFGhSfT9zR0p6lvFwCfd2Rd 0LugxrXJGxJHNht4ZNvxbro= =h37M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0NB0lE7sNnW8+0qW-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message