Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:15:55 +0400 (MSD) | From | <> | Subject | Re: Wrapfs a stackable file system |
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Some docs about stackable fs (aka wrapfs): http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/WORK/ucla.html and: http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/PAPERS/index.html
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, David Chow wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > > > > On 21 Sep 2001, Oystein Viggen wrote: > > > > > * [ David Chow] > > > > > > > The idea is orinigally from FiST, a stackable file system. But the FiST > > > > owner Erez seems given up to maintain the project. At the time I receive > > > > the code, it is so buggy, even unusable, lots of segmentation fault > > > > problems. I have debugging the fs for quite a while. Now it is useful in > > > > just use as a file system wrapper. It is useful in chroot environments > > > > and hardlinks aren't available. It wraps a directory and mount to > > > > another directory on tops of any filesystems. > > > > > > Is this not essentially what we already have with mount --bind in 2.4? > > > > Bindings can be used to get the same result, but underlying mechanics is > > different. Wrapfs is not the most interesting application of FiST, so it's > > hardly a surprise... > > > > I think you people didn't understand what is wrapfs, if is only a template > for FiST. The aim is to provide a properly maintained stackable template > under linux, and so that people can use FiST to develop their own > filesystem. Currently the wrapfs template is so buggy, I spend weeks to > fix all the bugs and even rewriting some of the code to make it more > efficient. This dosn't means --bind, it means it also fix up tons of FS'es > that is previously produced by using the old buggy FiST template, FiST is > good for developing new stackable file system, the current problem is that > the templates are buggy.... you got it??? If you know something is good > but it is not properly maintained, why not give it a hand and do all the > people a flavour? > > regards, > > David > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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