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Re: NOOFS on Hurd


From: Michal Suchanek
Subject: Re: NOOFS on Hurd
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:48:45 +0200

On 10/24/05, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> wrote:
>    So could you recommend us someone for help.
>
> You will have to ask something a bit more specific.
>
> But a good start as to learning what needs to be done to port a
> file-system is examining the existing code, and figuring out how to
> tie that in with NOOFS.  The headers for diskfs and netfs will be of
> great interest since that is where most of the documentation is.  Then
> it might be wise to understand how Mach works from a server point of
> view.
>
> Is NOOFS something like nfs or is it a block file-system like ext2?
>
It appears to be more like NFS, with the server using a database
backend instead of a filesystem.

Looks quite interesting.


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