Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:00:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Miles Lubin <miles@lubin.us> Subject: Re: shfs port? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040526175932.20947J-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20040525170632.GB18275@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Tue, 25 May 2004, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 12:08:37PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > "Miles Lubin" <miles@lubin.us> wrote: > > > The shfs linux kernel module (http://shfs.sourceforge.net/) looks like it > > would be useful, > > > anyone interested in leading the porting of it? I would gladly help, but I've > > never ported > > > anything and dont know the FBSD or Linux kernel well. > > > > it would be more simple to supply ssh support to ggated/ggatec under -current :) > > GEOM gate and shfs are unrelated. GEOM gate provides remote access to a > GEOM (e.g. a disk object). shfs accesses files remotly via an ssh > connection much like an ftp file system. If you wrote an appropriate > daemon, it should be straight forward to do this via portalfs. See > mount_portalfs(8) for more info. It would actually be tempting to use something like Arla's XFS or the Coda stubs in the kernel to implement it via a userland daemon, since they make it a lot easier to write a distributed file system, especially if that file system transfers only whole files rather than blocks. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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