Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Feb 1998 20:04:39 +0000 (GMT) | From | Ray Glendenning <> | Subject | Re: [OFF-TOPIC] lofs & tfs |
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On 3 Feb 1998, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Ray Glendenning <ray@hackery.demon.co.uk> writes: > > Does anyone know what happened to the lofs support which was mentioned a > > while ago (May 97(ish) I think??). I anyone has the patch which was > > around (I can't seem to access it) then could they please e-mail it to me. > > Using FTPsearch I found > > ftp://ftp.torun.pdi.net/pub/Linux/prepatches/lofs-2.0.30.diff > > but I don't know how well it applies to 2.0.33 (I haven't tried it out yet). > Any idea if autofs will use that at some point ? > > > I'd be interested in working on this and possibly the tfs layer. > > There was also someone working on tmpfs (I assume that's what you mean by tfs), > but I haven't heard anything about it for a while. Last I heard there were > problems with "double caching". > > > Stefan >
tfs is Translucent File System which is a bit like ifs (Inheriting File System) which could be very handy for building packages (what I want it for) and for making multi-session CDs.
See ya
Ray Glendenning
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