Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:49:22 +0100 From: Richard =?utf-8?q?K=C3=A4stner?= <richard.kaestner@ycn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mapping [process|socket|...] to Filesystem Message-ID: <200601031949.22484.richard.kaestner@ycn.com> In-Reply-To: <43B99B33.5020609@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <200601021833.59112.richard.kaestner@ycn.com> <43B99B33.5020609@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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On Monday 02 January 2006 22:29, Bj=C3=B6rn K=C3=B6nig wrote: > > Richard K=C3=A4stner schrieb: > > Hello, > > > > hope to find some help, hints and experience here: > > > > an external device expects commands and command data, > > it produces result-codes and result data. > > Communication is done via HTTP (and working) > > > > The idea is, to allow access via Samba, which requires either > > implementation of Samba - VFS modules or mapping to BSD-Filesystem - > > pseudofs came to my mind. > > [...] > > Hello, > > your description is a little bit vague to me, but it sounds like that > this task can be probably done by using portalfs. See mount_portalfs(8) > for examples. > > Regards Bj=C3=B6rn Bj=C3=B6rn, (sorry for being vague - I seem to be too deep in my problems) thanks for the tip - portalfs was the first thing to try, but it does not w= ork=20 with samba (at least the way, I wanted ): Portalfs does not allow to pass anything besides '/p/tcp/localhost/6666' To be less vague : the external device is a black box, communicates via ???-HTTP server. The idea is: =2D a (windows)user copies a file to a directory (say: .../commands/xyz), =2D there is a "thing", that maps this file to some activity towards extern= al box (similar to: procfs_doprocnote ) =2D as a response, a file appears in another file (.../response/data),=20 which can be read from (windows)client ( similar to: procfs_doproccmdline) =2D the whole stuff should work diskless=20 =2D response data can be from a few bytes up to several megabyte =2D if I can manage, I could export this filesystem via samba _and_ nfs ... =2D if it all was only about acces to the black box, it could be done via=20 HTTP ... unfortunately, I have to deal with windows clients Regards Richard =2D-=20 Mit freundlichen Gr=C3=BC=C3=9Fen Richard K=C3=A4stner EDV-Beratung Woerthgasse 17 2500 Baden Austria
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