Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:47:29 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: FS idea |
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David Feuer writes: > Please no flames. This is probably ridiculus, but I like it. > > <asbestos suit> > > 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. > > </asbestos suit>
This is called userfs and someone has already done it. As usual, it's not in the kernel :-( For some things (non performance critical filesystems), userfs would be quite good.
Regards,
Richard....
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