Re: VFS mediator?

From: Jonathan Barker <jbarker@ebi.ac.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
	Britt Park <britt@drscience.sciencething.org>,
	David Golden <david.golden@unison.ie>,
	Dominik Kubla <kubla@sciobyte.de>,
	Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: VFS mediator?
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:28:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203151327.NAA303879@alpha1.ebi.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203141351.NAA257264@alpha1.ebi.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200203141351.NAA257264@alpha1.ebi.ac.uk>

Dear All

On Thursday 14 Mar 2002 2:52 pm, I wrote:

> In brief: a kernel module which "exported" VFS requests to a (specified)
> user-space daemon would be useful. My particular application is a daemon
> which generates files on the fly - I would like to expose this as part of
> the filesystem. Ideally, the kernel module would deal with generation of
> fake inode numbers etc and the user-space daemon would simply be asked to
> create a pipe corresponding to a "filename" and (possibly) supply a
> directory tree.

Many thanks for all your useful suggestions. I'll look at them all and (when 
I get time) compile a digest of answers. I'm particularly amused by the very 
groovy perlfs (thanks to David Golden for pointing me towards it). 

Jonathan