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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.

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