Re: GmailFS

From: Robert Watson (rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 06/27/05

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    Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:45:35 +0100 (BST)
To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>

    On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:

    >> hello guys
    >> can not the FUSE http://fuse.sourceforge.net ported to freebsd ?
    >> it would be nice to test the gmail fs on freebsd
    >> http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html
    >
    > AFAIK, this is not available with FreeBSD. There is no user level
    > filesystem support. However, NetBSD announced [1] that one of their
    > project for Google Summer of Code is to implement userspace file system
    > hooks. This may be ported on FreeBSD one day.

    Arla's XFS code actually does quite a good job of providing a userlevel
    file system framework on FreeBSD, and the Coda kernel module also lets you
    implement userlevel file systems. I have a slight preference for the Arla
    XFS implementation as it's more general-purpose. I've previously used
    Arla's framework to write part of a user level tertiary file system
    implementation.

    Robert N M Watson
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