Re: the DragonFly VFS

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

: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.

   That's the idea behind my desire for a 'userland' supported VFS.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>