Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 14:45:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nightmare. Message-ID: <199608152145.OAA01504@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960815104618.8304J-100000@minnow.render.com> from "Doug Rabson" at Aug 15, 96 10:47:35 am
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> > What about ZIPFS, or CPIOFS? ZOOFS? ARCFS? LBRFS? Punch-tape-FS > > is possible, but it wouldn't be politically correct -- too many trees > > would get cut down. ;-} > > More seriously, all these and more could be easily implemented using a > decent USERFS which would allow a simple filesystem to be implemented in > usermode. Simple == single threaded. I believe John Heidemann had one of these as well and used it for source level debugging of FS implementations. Again, this assumes that the FS architecture is changed slightly to more closely resemble FICUS, the design document from which it is supposedly derived. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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