Date: 03 Mar 2000 11:39:26 +0100 From: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> To: Aaron Smith <aaron-fbsd@mutex.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user-space filesystems Message-ID: <5lem9s8hi9.fsf@assaris.sics.se> In-Reply-To: Aaron Smith's message of "Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:33:18 -0800" References: <20000302163318.F7995@gelatinous.com>
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Aaron Smith <aaron-fbsd@mutex.org> writes: > i've done some searching and i've seen discussion of userland fs > before. has there been any progress in the user-space filesystem area? i > have a nifty project and i would like to avoid using loopback NFS; have we > got anything akin to linux's userfs yet? (As far as I know, userfs in linux is quite bit rotten.) But I think there are two different user-space filesystems for FreeBSD right now: vcoda used by the coda file system. See LINT for enabling it and then the code in /sys/coda xfs used by the arla (afs implementation) file system. Grab code from <http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/arla/>. There's a port of arla but it's outdated and does not work anymore. See PR 17036. Or just grab the distribution - it builds without problems. These two filesystems are quite similar and of course targeted to the needs of the file systems that use them, but they are useful for other file systems as well. I know that there are other file systems using xfs for implementation ease. Hope this is helpful and send me some more questions if you have any. /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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