On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:11:53PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > > The whole idea of a filesystem in userspace is pretty hackish, so I won't > > ask what's wrong with it. Instead, I'll ask: What would be a better way > > to do it? > > Give your filesystem an NFS server interface. An NFS server listens > for SunRPC/UDP packets and replies with more of the same. You can't > get better isolation from the kernel than that. Better, it uses the > very portable Berkeley Socket interface, so the same code could run on > Linux, HP/UX and Windows with a few tweaks. It can be network > transparent if you want, or it can be restricted to localhost.
Doesn't this open you up to the world of evil that is NFS security? _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
