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Creating Linux virtual filesystems

Posted Oct 29, 2002 19:32 UTC (Tue) by erich (subscriber, #7127)
Parent article: Creating Linux virtual filesystems

I'd like to see some experience reviews of replicating filesystems (preferrably based on such virtual filesystems) but also on Coda, OpenAFS, Intermezzo, SFS (which is non replicating, but a nice secure network file system).
Especially on such issues like reliable locking, ease of setup, speed of replication etc. I'd love to have a mail server on a replicating set of servers (using Maildir of course, not mbox). Preferably capable of disconnected operation - having one mail server in the US, one in Europe would be cool...

Greetings,
Erich

P.S. Thanks to HP, LWN and Bdale for the Debian Group Subscription.

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Creating Linux virtual filesystems

Posted Mar 22, 2004 13:31 UTC (Mon) by mojozoox (guest, #20372) [Link]

Ya alright i managed to tweak the filesystem to run on linux 2.4. But im unable to mount it ...

mkfs -t option does not seem to work with the lwnfs okay!

could somebody help on how to go about it to associate it to a device and then mount it to mountpoint.

Creating Linux virtual filesystems

Posted Apr 1, 2004 20:12 UTC (Thu) by coderock (guest, #12382) [Link]

You are not supposed to mkfs it, or associate it with a device, just "mount -t lwnfs none /some/where" should work