Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:34:21 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [Korbit-cvs] Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit |
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Fredrik Vraalsen wrote: > The cool thing is that the CorbaFS userspace server can implement any > kind of filesystem you want, as long as it follows the CorbaFS > interface!
Sorry, it's yet another one. Or does it do something different? (YAO hasn't stopped me working on userspace filesystems either :-)
> The current implementation exports the filesystem on the > host machine that it is running on, similar to NFS. But we also have > ideas for FTP or web filesystems, for example. Imagine being able to > mount the web CorbaFS onto /mnt/www and do a > > cat /mnt/www/www.kernel.org/index.html > > and the CorbaFS userspace server takes care of loading the webpage and > returning it to the kernel client. And these new filesystems don't > take up any extra space in the kernel, since they all talk to the same > CorbaFS kernel module! Not to mention being able to implement the > filesystem in any language you like, debug the implementation in > userspace, etc.
A bit like CodaFS and Perlfs. Except, being CORBA, you can run the userspace server remotely? ;-) <evil grin>
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