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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Hi!

> 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!  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

can you do ls /mnt/www/www.kernel.org/ as well? I'm interested, I came
to conclusion that web filesystem is not possible... (If you can't do
listings, it is not really filesystem; you could do

 cat /mnt/www/www.kernel.org_index.html as well, and that's easy to
do.) 

> 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.

codafs can do pretty much the same.
								Pavel
-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
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