RE: Ke: Floppy Handling

From: pavel-velo@bug.ucw.cz
Date: Thu Jan 02 1997 - 05:53:02 EST


>> > I did not see a userfs in the 2.2.16 tree I have here. If there is one in another version
>> > of the kernel - just let me know and I'll see how bad it'll be to cruft at least a basic
>> > test case together.
>>
>> You can use the coda kernel stuff to build a userfs
>
>Speaking of which: There are a few things that I dislike about the
>coda filesystem. For one, I can only mount ONE. If I use the real
>"coda" the userspace <-> codafs connection is taken, and I cannot
>run podfuk.

Right. However fixing this is likely to be a lot easier than writing userfs.

[There's one more deficiency: it works on whole files -> it is unusable for cdfs: reading whole track before givng first bytes of .wav to user is bad.

>Also I can't mount different stuff in different places. One
>mountpoint. One deamon.
>
>Or have I mis-understood something?
>
> Roger.
>
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