Messages in this thread | | | From | Jonathan Barker <> | Subject | VFS mediator? | Date | Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:52:04 +0000 |
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Dear all
In brief: a kernel module which "exported" VFS requests to a (specified) user-space daemon would be useful. My particular application is a daemon which generates files on the fly - I would like to expose this as part of the filesystem. Ideally, the kernel module would deal with generation of fake inode numbers etc and the user-space daemon would simply be asked to create a pipe corresponding to a "filename" and (possibly) supply a directory tree.
Clearly, an application-specific module could do the job - cf NFS. But I am not (yet) skilled enough in kernel development to know how, and it seems to me that a "VFS mediator" module could simplify development of many VFS-related applications (eg mounting ftp sites). Is there a kind soul out there who has already done this, or is willing to undertake such a task?
Thanks for any input
Jonathan
Dr Jonathan Barker EMBL-EBI Hinxton jbarker@ebi.ac.uk
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