From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:19:23 -0200 From: "Iruata Souza" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Glendix? In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60711131404l593f4d99i52e50175151c0959@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3a4dacba376b00e27e9c1a6b93c77baa@terzarima.net> <3e1162e60711131404l593f4d99i52e50175151c0959@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: f8901658-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Nov 13, 2007 8:04 PM, David Leimbach 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