On Nov 13, 2007 8:04 PM, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was of the impression the Linux VFS layer was set up to work well with NFS. > > I've no idea how the BSD VFS is these days. Mac OS X had stackable > filesystems for a while, then Apple discouraged that practice > (presumably due to overheads of doing so... so goodbye original > implementation of unionfs). > OpenBSD has dropped stackable filesystems long ago. The original BSD unionfs implementation was a nightmare. I started writing a trivial just for the sake of learning.
> DragonflyBSD was going to have a VFS based on a message passing system > of sorts... but not 9p :-). That would make things like FUSE pretty > easy I'd think, or 9p for that matter. > I haven't touched the VFS itself, but with o9fs (9P filesystem for OpenBSD) one should be allow ed to write userland file servers (that's one of my personal goals). iru
