Re: [9fans] Easiest way to make a filesystem

["Christopher Nielsen" <cnielsen@pobox.com>]

have a look at /sys/lib/lib9p/ramfs.c as a guide for writing one in C.
in the past, i have found it useful and educational.

On Jan 14, 2008 1:11 AM, Tom Lieber <alltom@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
>



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