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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 02:20:29 -0400
From:      "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, crossd@cs.rpi.edu
Subject:   Re: USFS (User Space File System) 
Message-ID:  <199907190620.CAA00750@cs.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>  of "Sat, 17 Jul 1999 17:33:40 PDT." <199907180033.RAA86259@apollo.backplane.com> 

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> :
> :Look into the portal filesystem. This is what you want :)
> :
> : Brian Fundakowski Feldman      _ __ ___ ____  ___ ___ ___  
> : green@FreeBSD.org                   _ __ ___ | _ ) __|   \ 
> 
>     Actually, it isn't quite.  All the portal filesystem will allow you
>     to do is pass back a descriptor.  It does not allow you to simulate
>     a filesystem.
> 
>     But something similar to what the portal filesystem does would be
>     cool -- maybe a real protocol to pass the VOP requests down to a 
>     user process and get responses & data.

Portal FS did give me a couple of starting points.. It looks interesting.
Just for my own clarification... how would this be different than NFS
(specifically local NFS)?

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