Re: FS idea

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jsgf@sirius.com)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:53:40 -0700 (PDT)

On 16-Sep-98 Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Heh. I wrote userfs about 4 years ago for exactly these reasons, and had a
>> pretty much identical list to yours in the readme file.
>
> I did something really similar to what you do in userfs, but it is
> called podfuk and uses hacked rpc.nfsd (+ midnight commander :-) to
> its work. (Look at
> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html).
>
> Are there any (major) reasons to use userfs when nfs is available?

I wrote userfs specifically as a research tool to see what was possible. I
knew at the time that NFS was a candidate, but I didn't want to be bound into
being compatible with anything.

NFS's stateless model makes some things harder to do, but for most things it
should be pretty reasonable. Performance won't be too good, but userfs was no
champ in that area...

J

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