GmailFS
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 27 09:41:50 GMT 2005
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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