Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:58:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:58:10 -0500 Received: from marine.sonic.net ([208.201.224.37]:17776 "HELO marine.sonic.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:57:56 -0500 X-envelope-info: Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 13:57:48 -0800 From: Mike Castle To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Roland Bauerschmidt Subject: Re: virtual filesystem with data managed in userspace Message-ID: <20011204135748.F1348@thune.mrc-home.com> Reply-To: Mike Castle Mail-Followup-To: Mike Castle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roland Bauerschmidt In-Reply-To: <20011204224026.A18753@g> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011204224026.A18753@g> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:40:26PM +0100, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote: > Do you think this concept is workable at all? What I am most worried Workable, and done. Several times over. The old userfs stuff, for instance. Any number of NFSD and the ilk (the Berkeley automount daemon, amd, for instance, could do this kind of stuff it wanted to). I believe CODA plays that game as well (at least to some extent). mrc -- Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc - 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/