OpenBSD xfs noofs

Harald Barth haba at pdc.kth.se
Thu Nov 17 01:22:13 CET 2005


> Running thru the doc, I see that the xfs is a generic interface to  
> send to a userland process all the call of the vfs layer. So I do not  
> need to write a kernel driver.

Yes.

> I want to use their work on OpenBSD.

It is not called xfs any more, nowadays its "nnpfs". The exception is
the OpenBSD kernel folks which seem to like backporting yesterdays
arla versions to yet older names or something like that (no, I don't
claim to understand their choices).

I would start with a fresh version of Arla and nnpfs, even if that
means doing a new nnpfs port to OpenBSD. 

For more examples using nnpfs google for "keso nnpfs".

For the moment, most development of Arla and nnpfs is done on
MacOS 10.4 (Tiger), Linux 2.6 and FreeBSD 5.x. The persons
who maintained the OpenBSD port seem to have other priorities
nowadays.

Harald.





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