From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 3 2:39:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from assaris.sics.se (assaris.sics.se [193.10.66.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410C337B56B for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 02:39:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from assar@assaris.sics.se) Received: (from assar@localhost) by assaris.sics.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01008; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:39:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from assar) To: Aaron Smith Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user-space filesystems References: <20000302163318.F7995@gelatinous.com> From: Assar Westerlund Date: 03 Mar 2000 11:39:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: Aaron Smith's message of "Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:33:18 -0800" Message-ID: <5lem9s8hi9.fsf@assaris.sics.se> Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aaron Smith 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 . There's a port of arla but it's outdated and does not work anymore.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