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Re: the DragonFly VFS


From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 17:15:52 -0600

You want to emulate the VFS interfaces of other OSes on DragonFly if I
read correctly.  This sounds ok as long as it doesn't artificially
limit the ability of the DragonFly kernel VFS to grow in new directions.

Dave
On Dec 8, 2003, at 3:52 PM, evs wrote:


Filesystems are largely self-contained however, porting them from one OS to another is not easy because even if the source OS has a VFS, the interface may be very different from the target OSs VFS, such as the differences between the Linux VFS and the FreeBSD VFS.

What if DragonFly had a VFS for the VFS? A virtual-virtual
filesystem? Its purpose would be to support multiple VFS interfaces:
Linux, FreeBSD, others, and it's own. The goal of this would be to
make the porting of filesystems to Dragonfly as trivial as possible
and allow the comparison of different filesystem implementations on a
level playing field.

Any comments are welcome.






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