Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Sep 1998 19:54:07 +0100 | From | Carlos Morgado <> | Subject | Re: FS idea |
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On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 09:09:53PM -0400, David Feuer wrote: > 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 >
This was toyed with at 1.2 time i think. Somebody implemented a kernel hook for userspace filesystems. As i remember there were 3 fs ... a ftp fs that behave a bit like automount nfs , a file fs for tgzs and another supporting compression. You may like to look into it. - -- Carlos Morgado - l39801@alfa.ist.utl.pt - http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~c39801 PGP Key fingerprint = 43 BF 53 98 EB 32 F5 17 9E EB 77 1F 57 8C C6 83 [sig out on holidays]
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