Hi!
> > While Pavel *does* mention it, I'd like to strees the availability
> > of smbfs, which is a kernel-side, open-source implementation of what
> > you're probably (I don't follow this list too closely, and do
> > wholesale deletes from time to time) looking for:
>
> My understanding is that Marc wanted to write a webdav client useful on
> many OSes, not just on FreeBSD, so this is not a good example.
>
> It would be nice to develop a framework that would allow the same code to
> be used either as a user-space filesystem for the kernel (like Sharity
> Light) or as anapplication-level VFS, like GNOME VFS. Perhaps GNOME VFS
> could provide kernel interface at some point.
Hmm, this is done with gnome libvfs. It is called uservfs(.sf.net)
these days (used to be called podfuk).
> I believe that all serious VFS development should be done in GNOME VFS.
> When it matures, MC could switch to using it.
>
> I would like to avoid duplication of efforts. If you are interested in
> VFS development, help GNOME VFS. I'm open to fixes for MC VFS, but let's
> not spend too many efforts on a filesystem designed for one
> application.
Yep. gnome vfs is not multithreaded and that's bad. Someone should
1) clean gnome vfs up
2) rewrite mc to use gnome vfs.
Pavel
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