From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 12 03:39:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA21894 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 03:39:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.96.1.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA21889 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 03:39:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA26666; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 06:39:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 06:39:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Stephen McKay cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user-mode nfs daemon In-Reply-To: <199706120856.SAA25570@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In this vein has anyone seen ZipMagic for Win95/NT? Makes all your compressed files look like directories. Its s00per nifty. On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Stephen McKay wrote: > 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 > > I think a user mode NFS server could become a hotbed of interesting > development. All sorts of border-line-insane file system ideas could > be explored with little danger to your kernel, and hence the rest of > your file systems. What was that recent thread about a "tar" file system? > Could scotty be interfaced with an NFS server to produce a file system of > SNMP data? Could the DNS be similarly mapped? A special exploded CVS > view where every release tree and every file revision is available for > instant examination with ls, more, diff, wc, or whatever. > > All crazy, but kind of interesting. Maybe some are even useful. > > Stephen. > /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */