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Re: Can we use a rump kernel to implement ext4?


From: Luca Dariz
Subject: Re: Can we use a rump kernel to implement ext4?
Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 09:53:36 +0200
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Il 02/05/2018 20:17, Joshua Branson ha scritto:
> 
> Slightly related question, I just quickly read the intro text to the
> rump kernel on rumpkernel.org.  And I read
> 
> "We solve the problem by providing free, reusable, componentized, kernel
> quality drivers such as file systems..."
> 
> Could someone use a rump kernel to implement more modern filsystems?
> The Hurd currently mainly just uses ext2 at the moment...

I'm not sure about rumpkernel (but I guess the answer is yes), anyway
this is already possible with my LKL port.
In fact I modified libfuse to implement the test reading an ext4 image;
it should be easy to include other filesystem.

Luca




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