From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 23 12:36:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA21798 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:36:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA21780 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 12:35:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA11547; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:35:27 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA16573; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:35:27 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:35:27 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710231935.NAA16573@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zipfs filesystem anyone ? In-Reply-To: <199710231754.KAA27570@usr02.primenet.com> References: <199710230638.HAA26030@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199710231754.KAA27570@usr02.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > > Thus, I was looking at something which would pass all filesystem > > (or vn ?) calls to some user-space process which could then handle > > them properly. Using this approach, little modifications to, say, > > a standard "unzip" program, would permit such a filesystem to be > > implemented relatively easily. Efficiency is not a major concern > > for this type of application (especially because the typical use > > would be sequential access to files). > > The VFS interface is not reflexive. Forgive me, but does that mean that the interface doesn't jerk when you hit it in the knee? *grin* Nate