From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261861AbTEHQxo (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 12:53:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261866AbTEHQxo (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 12:53:44 -0400 Received: from 101.24.177.216.inaddr.G4.NET ([216.177.24.101]:38074 "EHLO sparrow.stearns.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261861AbTEHQxn (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 12:53:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 13:02:21 -0400 (EDT) From: William Stearns X-X-Sender: wstearns@sparrow-zaphod Reply-To: William Stearns To: Alan Cox cc: Jesse Pollard , Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, "viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Terje Eggestad , Erez Zadok Subject: Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export. In-Reply-To: <1052407341.10038.69.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Good day, all, On 8 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > > There is NO reason a custom filesystem cannot be layered over other > > filesystems. It might not be done today (though the references to "userfs" > > keep showing up in such discussions). > > Erez Zadoz (not sure of the spelling) did some stacking fs modules on > Linux Erez Zadok maintains the FiST (File System Translator) project at http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/fist/ . For those not familiar with the project, one writes an upper level filesystem that can modify VFS requests or results, providing a VFS proxy. Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "All programs evolve until they can send email." -- Richard Letts "Except Microsoft Exchange." -- Art (found on the Snort web site) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org Linux articles at: http://www.opensourcedigest.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------