From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 18 23:21:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rpi.edu (mumble.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.8.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C4E414E36; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:21:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crossd@cs.rpi.edu) Received: from cs.rpi.edu (monica.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.7.2]) by cs.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA00750; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 02:20:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907190620.CAA00750@cs.rpi.edu> To: Matthew Dillon Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , "David E. Cross" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, crossd@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Re: USFS (User Space File System) In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Dillon of "Sat, 17 Jul 1999 17:33:40 PDT." <199907180033.RAA86259@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 02:20:29 -0400 From: "David E. Cross" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : > :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)? -- David Cross | email: crossd@cs.rpi.edu Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, | Ph: 518.276.2860 Department of Computer Science | Fax: 518.276.4033 I speak only for myself. | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message