Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 1996 01:49:14 -0400 (EDT) | From | Kenneth Albanowski <> | Subject | Re: os9 and linux |
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On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> I'd agree there are things we can gain in these areas. I've also got an OS/9 > box although it doesnt exactly do a lot at the moment. More modularity and > cleaner modules are what it offers.
From what I got out of that description of OS/9, it has great similarities to Plan 9 -- a flexible file system that can mean different things depending on what modules are loaded. It _would_ be nice if Linux truly supported this sort of stuff. /proc is a step in that direction, and so is userfs, but it needs to be fully integrated with the kernel, and _fast_ to be of use.
Once you have something like that, "transparent" mounting and such stuff is a breeze. (And we really need transparent mounts along with the rest...)
I remember Linus mentioning that he had been convinced that doing this stuff completely at the user-level (assumedly via a libc shim) is superior to kernel-level, but I never saw how you can make such a technique secure.
> Alan
-- Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)
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