From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 12 02:26:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA18586 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 02:26:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from noc.demon.net (firewall-user@server.noc.demon.net [193.195.224.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA18578 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 02:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by noc.demon.net; id KAA02317; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:26:08 +0100 (BST) Received: from stress.noc.demon.net(195.11.55.5) by inside.noc.demon.net via smap (3.2) id xma002315; Thu, 12 Jun 97 10:26:03 +0100 Received: from hdm by stress.noc.demon.net with local (Exim 1.61 #3) id 0wc68o-0003vO-00; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:26:02 +0100 To: Stephen McKay cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user-mode nfs daemon X-Mailer: nmh v0.14, exmh 2.0gamma, gvim 4.5 X-Colour: Green In-reply-to: <199706120856.SAA25570@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:26:02 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell Message-Id: Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stephen McKay wrote: > On Wednesday, 11th June 1997, Doug Rabson wrote: > > >On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Joseph D. Orthoefer wrote: > > > >> Has anyone ported the usermode nfs server from linux to freebsd? > > > >Why do you want this to work? The kernel NFS server is probably a lot > >more efficient. > > Ah, yes, but the user mode one would be so much easier to change. No need > for continuous build/reboot/login cycles. Once you have a user mode NFS > server, you can tweak it to be a compressed file system, a crypto file system > , > or even an ftp converter. I think it would be cool to just do: > > $ cd /ftp/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD > $ ls -l > $ more README Ah, you'll be wanting to look at alex. Take a peek at ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/www/alex.html for further details, but that's a user level NFS server which maps ftp servers onto a filesystem. -Dom