On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:31:57AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 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.
Google is your friend:
http://www.google.com/search?q=userspace%20filesystem%20linux
turned up quite a few hits. I'd post some URLs here, but I think
that raw google output is going to be much more beneficial.
I think that podfuk is still the only _working_ example of this,
though. Personally, I never got it to compile :(. I can't
remember why. maybe I did but I just never bothered to play with
it, which is equally likely :).
There's another 'stackable' (?) filesystem project called FIST ...
I remember it being mentioned on the linux-kernel mailing list a
few months ago. That's probably under active development and has
a high chance of working.
> 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.
There's a similar project going on for user-space device drivers;
search the lkml archives if you're really interested ... I can't
remember what it's called.
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