From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Russ Lewis <russl@lycosmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Has it been done: User Script File System?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:01:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010614130115.A33@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B27A546.A64F8B00@lycosmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B27A546.A64F8B00@lycosmail.com>; from russl@lycosmail.com on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:39:19AM -0700
Hi!
> Is there any filesystem in Linux that uses user scripts/executables to
> implement the various function calls? What I'm thinking of is something
> along the lines of a file system module that, when it receives a call
> from VFS, passes the information out to a user-mode daemon which could
> then run scripts or executables to answer the question. The daemon
> would then return the answer to the module, and the module would answer
> VFS.
Take a look at uservfs.sourceforge.net. Its extfs module is basically what
you want. zipfs is already implemented using script...
Pavel
--
Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt,
details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-16 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-13 17:39 Has it been done: User Script File System? Russ Lewis
2001-06-13 17:12 ` Jeff Dike
2001-06-13 18:54 ` Peter Makholm
2001-06-13 19:43 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2001-06-14 13:01 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20010614130115.A33@toy.ucw.cz \
--to=pavel@suse.cz \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=russl@lycosmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).