Re: virtual filesystem with data managed in userspace

Mike Castle (dalgoda@ix.netcom.com)
Tue, 4 Dec 2001 13:57:48 -0800

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:40:26PM +0100, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
> Do you think this concept is workable at all? What I am most worried

Workable, and done. Several times over.

The old userfs stuff, for instance.

Any number of NFSD and the ilk (the Berkeley automount daemon, amd, for
instance, could do this kind of stuff it wanted to).

I believe CODA plays that game as well (at least to some extent).

mrc

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