[TxMt] Remote filesystems (was: Remote projects)

[Kevin Ballard]

On Sep 23, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:

> The problem is that the OS X VFS implementation seems to be rather  
> under-documented and auite the moving target [5]. It changed a lot  
> for Tiger. It has developed independent from  FreeBSD, so porting  
> the FreeBSD Fuse driver is not at all trivial (lack of  
> documentation again not helping).
>
> ...
> The ftpfs [2] on OS X uses yet another approach: It presents itself  
> to the OS as an NFS server, and translates NFS to FTP. This may  
> seem like a convoluted approach (and it is), but has the advantage  
> that it can be completely implemented in user space, and the NFS  
> protocol encapsulates it from changes in the kernels VFS  
> implementation.
>
> ...
>
> [5] http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1242.html

Erm, I'd like to point out that, as [5] mentions, in Tiger VFS's are  
now fairly well insulated from Kernel changes, and if I remember WWDC  
correctly, the Kernel changes in 10.4 should make things like VFS's a  
lot more forward-compatible. So it really isn't so much the moving  
target anymore.

-- 
Kevin Ballard
kevin at sb.org
http://www.tildesoft.com
http://kevin.sb.org

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