Re: Has it been done: User Script File System?

Hi! > Is there any filesystem in Linux that uses user scripts/executables to > implement the various function calls? What I'm thinking of is something > along the lines of a file system module that, when it receives a call > from VFS, passes the information out to a user-mode daemon which could

Re: Has it been done: User Script File System?

Hi! Is there any filesystem in Linux that uses user scripts/executables to implement the various function calls? What I'm thinking of is something along the lines of a file system module that, when it receives a call from VFS, passes the information out to a user-mode daemon which could

Re: Has it been done: User Script File System?

Quoting Russ Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > mount -t userfs /etc/myfs.conf /myfs I did this a while ago: I wrote userfs which allowed arbirary filesystems to be implemented in user space. One of these was a filesystem which allowed you to embed scripts in symlinks, such that stdout of the

Re: Has it been done: User Script File System?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russ Lewis) writes: > Is there any filesystem in Linux that uses user scripts/executables to > implement the various function calls? What I'm thinking of is something It has been done before. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/userfs/userfs.lsm describes a patch/kernel

Re: Has it been done: User Script File System?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Is there any filesystem in Linux that uses user scripts/executables to > implement the various function calls? http://uservfs.sourceforge.net Also, have a look at the hostfs filesystem in UML. It implements a virtual filesystem which provides access to the host

Re: Has it been done: User Script File System?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is there any filesystem in Linux that uses user scripts/executables to implement the various function calls? http://uservfs.sourceforge.net Also, have a look at the hostfs filesystem in UML. It implements a virtual filesystem which provides access to the host

Re: Has it been done: User Script File System?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russ Lewis) writes: Is there any filesystem in Linux that uses user scripts/executables to implement the various function calls? What I'm thinking of is something It has been done before. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/userfs/userfs.lsm describes a patch/kernel