From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Jul 30 14:14:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-fs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA07347 for fs-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA07304; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA00605; Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:13:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199607302113.OAA00605@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Union mounts and other mounts To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:13:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Michael Hancock" at Jul 26, 96 00:24:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-fs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Terry, are you out there? Yes, I'm here. I broke my back two weeks ago last Thursday, and have been pretty much laid up and starving for network access. 8-(. > Please upload your mega patches. I'm sure someone will take a look and > maybe we can at least start with getting the locks fixed. > > Or do we just have to dream about the possibilities? I will not be able to get to this until this weekend. Basically, it's nothing more than a CVS diff on my machine, or I can upload the full /sys directory (like Poul wanted). I can't give him direct access because all incoming connections are firewalled by the corporate gateway. > I want to mount my home source directory on top of a FreeBSD CD and > compile as if the CD were writable. Me too. > I want to start working on a non-itar restricted crypto-fs layer. This would be cool. > I want to see a gzip layer. Two of John's students have already implemented one of these; I have the code here, but only on the condition that it not be redistributed. I like the idea of block compression better than file compression. It goes a long way towards using the character set as a compression attribute (ie: an ISO-8859-1 character set is a "compressed" ISO-10646/16 character set, assuming you use only ISO-8859-1 characters... etc.). You may wish to check with John directly re compression layer code. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.