Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:26:02 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell <hdm@demon.net> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user-mode nfs daemon Message-ID: <E0wc68o-0003vO-00.qmail@stress.noc.demon.net> In-Reply-To: <199706120856.SAA25570@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au>
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Stephen McKay wrote: > On Wednesday, 11th June 1997, Doug Rabson wrote: > > >On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Joseph D. Orthoefer wrote: > > > >> Has anyone ported the usermode nfs server from linux to freebsd? > > > >Why do you want this to work? The kernel NFS server is probably a lot > >more efficient. > > Ah, yes, but the user mode one would be so much easier to change. No need > for continuous build/reboot/login cycles. Once you have a user mode NFS > server, you can tweak it to be a compressed file system, a crypto file system > , > or even an ftp converter. I think it would be cool to just do: > > $ cd /ftp/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD > $ ls -l > $ more README Ah, you'll be wanting to look at alex. Take a peek at ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/www/alex.html for further details, but that's a user level NFS server which maps ftp servers onto a filesystem. -Dom
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