Re: the DragonFly VFS

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

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.