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FUSE - implementing filesystems in user space

FUSE - implementing filesystems in user space

Posted Feb 6, 2004 3:47 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
Parent article: FUSE - implementing filesystems in user space

Has anyone ever written a 9P (aka 9fs) client for Linux? I know there are a couple of servers but I can't see anything obvious on Google.

a kernel-space 9P client would let you implement almost anything you like in terms of filesystems as userspace servers.


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FUSE - implementing filesystems in user space

Posted Feb 6, 2004 4:59 UTC (Fri) by mcatkins (subscriber, #4270) [Link]

Ron Minnich had a good go at it, but I don't think it was really
completed - pitty, because as you say, it would "let you implement
almost anything you like..."

Some stuff is on his homepage at:
http://public.lanl.gov/rminnich/
and there is an inactive sourceforge site at:
http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/

There was also work on private namespaces for Linux and BSD, which is
the other key technology to getting this all to work properly!

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