From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Oct 31 10:53:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from angel.algonet.se (angel.algonet.se [194.213.74.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B913C14CAC for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:53:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mal@algonet.se) Received: (qmail 6333 invoked from network); 31 Oct 1999 19:53:44 +0100 Received: from kent.algonet.se (194.213.74.90) by angel.algonet.se with SMTP; 31 Oct 1999 19:53:44 +0100 Received: from kairos.algonet.se ([194.213.74.18]) by algonet.se (BLUETAIL Mail Robustifier1.0.4) with ESMTP ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:53:44 GMT Received: (mal@localhost) by kairos.algonet.se (8.8.8+Sun/8.6.12) id TAA03522; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:53:43 +0100 (MET) To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Cc: ezk@cs.columbia.edu (Erez Zadok) Subject: Re: stupidfs - easily extensible test file systems? From: Mats Lofkvist Date: 31 Oct 1999 19:53:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: ezk@cs.columbia.edu's message of "29 Oct 1999 05:23:26 +0800" Message-ID: Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ezk@cs.columbia.edu (Erez Zadok) writes: > Robert, it's been done. To some degree that's nullfs (if nullfs had been > working; the VFS is broken). I've written stackable f/s templates exactly > for the purpose of developers using them to build other f/s w/o having the > many hassles of writing a full f/s. My wrapper templates, called wrapfs, > work on freebsd, linux, and solaris. You can build all kinds of f/s using > them, including f/s that do not require persistent storage. > > See > http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research > for papers, and > http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/software > for tarballs. Is wrapfs/fist actively updated for FreeBSD? (I noted that the latest FreeBSD version is almost a year old and for 3.0 only.) And does anyone know if this has a chance being a standard part of FreeBSD, and how it relates to the general cleanup of the stacking fs code that seem to be on the "todo sometime in the future" list for FreeBSD? _ Mats Lofkvist mal@algonet.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message