On Nov 14, 2007 2:40 PM, Christian Kellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are both right. The AFS daemon runs in userspace. There has to be > a kernel interface to get it into the systems namespace facility > (here it is called VFS). For AFS this interface is very application specific > (/dev/xfs) but Iru's approach would allow to write drivers in userspace and
It's a generic interface, not application specific and not tied to AFS peculiarities. Think FUSE, only with using character devices instead of unix sockets to communicate with the userland. > communicate with the kernel through an application independent interface. > > This is what 9p is all about...
