Re: [9fans] Glendix?

["Iruata Souza" <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>]

On Nov 13, 2007 8:04 PM, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
>
OpenBSD has dropped stackable filesystems long ago. The original BSD
unionfs implementation was a nightmare. I started writing a trivial
just for the sake of learning.

> 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.
>

I haven't touched the VFS itself, but with o9fs (9P filesystem for
OpenBSD) one should be allow ed to write userland file servers (that's
one of my personal goals).


iru