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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:11:47 -0500
From: "Tom Lieber" <alltom@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] Easiest way to make a filesystem
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I'd like to make a few simple filesystems for personal use to do
things such as combine files or translate between different formats --
really simple stuff, on par with the filesystems described in the
"laying namespaces" paper from IWP9.

Is the easiest way to make a filesystem to make one in C in the way
described in Francisco's book? Are there any wrapping libraries for
the simplest filesystems? Or filesystems like these to base my work
on?

shifs (Uriel) seemed encouraging, as did tmfs (Noah Evans), though I
can't find source, nor determine the viability of either without it. I
think they are for Inferno.

I just obtained trfs but have not yet given it a thorough look. It's
intimidating that it is 400 lines for character replacement, since its
purpose is to pass every request nearly without modification to the
underlying fs.

-- 
Tom Lieber
http://AllTom.com/