Re: VFS mediator?

Jonathan Barker (jbarker@ebi.ac.uk)
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:28:22 +0000


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

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