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On Nov 14, 2007 2:40 PM, Christian Kellermann
<Christian.Kellermann@nefkom.net> wrote:
> You are both right. The AFS daemon runs in userspace. There has to be
> a kernel interface to get it into the systems namespace facility
> (here it is called VFS). For AFS this interface is very application specific
> (/dev/xfs) but Iru's approach would allow to write drivers in userspace and

It's a generic interface, not application specific and  not tied to AFS
peculiarities.
Think FUSE, only with using character devices instead of unix sockets
to communicate with the userland.

> communicate with the kernel through an application independent interface.
>
> This is what 9p is all about...