[podfuk/nfs:] Re: Music CD's

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 04:21:12 EST


Hi!

> Slightly off-topic, but whatever happend to the `user-fs' code
> from a few years back? In principle, it allowed to user-space
> daemon to simulate a filesystem. (Or, in more general terms,
> it allowed a user process to extend the kernel file namespace)

Userfs is dead, but there's a coda+podfuk combination which can let
you do the same. Podfuk is at
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html.

> Or can the NFS-userland code be co-opted for this purpose?

Yes, this might be better: coda works at file level -- that means that
podfuk would do copy of whole audio track to hdd, then serve it from
there.

Nfs is completely okay for this: no writes -> no deadlocks. No
directories -> no problems with handles. Take a look at older version
of podfuk to do that ;-).

So you "only" need to write audio layer into midnight. (Cool, isn't
it?)

                                                                Pavel

-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents me at discuss@linmodems.org


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