So, I'm feeling more deranged than usual tonight, so I'm looking for a module that will allow for userland programs to provide filesystem data to a kernel module, which in turn provides access to this via the normal Linux VFS.
Examples of such a concept: You have data in some kind of storage format that could be easily browsed within a shell / file manager type interface. You could share it via samba, appleshare, nfs. On first inspection, your data could look entirely different to a filesystem construct. The important thing is that the kernel module interface with a userland program to provide the necessary information. I've found 'podfuk', but if anyone has other suggestions, they're very welcome. I would be very interested in the ability to interface with a perl or python program... So I guess the question of 'crack?' is pretty well answered, then. :) podfuk: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html podfuk is pretty unique in that it uses coda on the kernel side, midnight commander vfs modules on the userland side, and totals 500loc. Wacky! - Jeff -- "Orphaned farm-boy hero helps save world against bad-guys, begins a journey of self-discovery, and makes interesting friends. Passable." - Andrew Bennetts on Star Wars -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
