From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] FreeBSD 9p work
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:41:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D81B2BD.9010403@strakt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e32d6696d0c3c06ab8c2718db9e15ab2@collyer.net>
Geoff Collyer wrote:
> Is the vnode or VFS machinery really not sufficiently
> general to handle file system protocols other than NFS?
The VFS layer should be general enough to implement 9p,
whereas the NFS layer is not. NFS has no close operation
which would really cause you problems with 9p.
I once wrote a version of ftpfs which ran as an NFS user
mode server. It worked, but was an extremely ugly thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-13 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-13 6:41 Geoff Collyer
2002-09-13 7:29 ` Alexander Viro
2002-09-14 0:19 ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-09-13 9:41 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
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2002-09-13 8:44 nigel
2002-09-13 5:28 Geoff Collyer
2002-09-13 6:37 ` Alexander Viro
2002-09-13 4:07 anothy
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