Re: [9fans] Glendix?

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On Nov 13, 2007 10:02 AM, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> >> I wish the BSD people would see how important they are, but then, I
> >> feel sorry for the VFS they have to deal with...
> >>
> >> uriel
>
> really? i'd supposed the bsd vfs was better designed.  isn't it? (i hadn't really looked at it
> for a years, so that wasn't rhetorical, i was really asking a question.)
> the linux one has lots of things in quite the wrong place
> because ... all decent files are on proper storage somewhere or they are damned!
>
>

I was of the impression the Linux VFS layer was set up to work well with NFS.

I've no idea how the BSD VFS is these days.  Mac OS X had stackable
filesystems for a while, then Apple discouraged that practice
(presumably due to overheads of doing so... so goodbye original
implementation of unionfs).

DragonflyBSD was going to have a VFS based on a message passing system
of sorts... but not 9p :-).  That would make things like FUSE pretty
easy I'd think, or 9p for that matter.

FreeBSD may still allow stackable filesystems, but it's hard to tell
where they are because all the cool kids work on linux.

Dave