On Thursday 6. December 2018 00.14.32 Paul Boddie wrote: > > I guess that not much discussion takes place here any more, and maybe I > should be posting to the normal Hurd development list instead, but I > wondered to what extent filesystem abstractions were considered and > developed for Hurd-on-L4 and how they compared (or were meant to compare) > with the equivalent code in Hurd-on-Mach.
Well, I guess there wasn't much to discuss on this topic. Nevertheless, I have written a few articles about it which might be interesting to someone: "Filesystem Familiarisation" https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=2407 "Using ext2 Filesystems with L4Re" https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=2420 "Filesystem Abstractions for L4Re" https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=2431 "Integrating libext2fs with a Filesystem Framework" https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=2457 "Dataspaces and Paging in L4Re" https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=2469 The earlier articles are more general, with the latest one actually dealing with L4/L4Re specifics. Of course, my thinking about such matters is still rather fluid, and I will need to look more closely at Hurd-on-Mach, but perhaps it is interesting for some to see the mechanisms available in other microkernel systems. Paul
