From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 13:22:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92FBD37B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB70243E65 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:22:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g77KMjLo055378 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 15:22:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17cXKP-0004ra-00 for ; Wed, 07 Aug 2002 15:22:45 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing filesystem between Linux and FreeBSD References: <877kj2wmaf.fsf@ketanu.dyndns.org> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 07 Aug 2002 15:22:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <877kj2wmaf.fsf@ketanu.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <87ofceifl6.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-08-07T18:34:16Z, Ketanu writes: > Here is the idea (and the question): could we develop a software that > would export a given ext2fs as Network File System on the local loopback, > to allow the kernel access this filesystem via the NFS interface. Sure! All you need to do is develop a suitably robust ext2 driver so that the NFS server could access it. Of course, once you have that driver, you can skip the NFS part altogether - see problem #1. The question really is: what are you trying to accomplish? -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message