Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:09:53 -0400 | From | David Feuer <> | Subject | FS idea |
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Please no flames. This is probably ridiculus, but I like it.
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I think it would be nice to add in a kernel feature to allow the kernel to interface with userspace programs to provide fs support for certain filesystems. There are three kinds of filesystems that (in my opinion) this would be really nice for.
1) Uncommon FS's that are not common enough to deserve kernel support 2) compressed or encrypted filesystems 3) fake filesystems. Things like tarfiles used as filesystems, punched card machines used as filesystems ;), and other things like that
The kind of hook I'm looking for would probably fit best in the loopback driver, in my opinion.
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Let me know what you think.
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