Re: Filesystem View
Re: Filesystem View
- Subject: Re: Filesystem View
- From: Mike Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:19:36 -0700
On May 18, 2005, at 12:13 PM, email@hidden wrote:
From: Hamish Allan <email@hidden>
Subject: Filesystem View
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to create a filesystem that is actually a view
onto another filesystem. Something akin to what is described here:
http://bryanmills.net:8086/archives/2005/05/meta-filesystem/
Bryan's implementation, however, uses FUSE, which as far as I can
tell is Linux-specific, as is LUFS. Is there anything similar for
Darwin / OS X? If not, how do I best go about my task? I tried
looking for information about the VFS, but all I found were mails on
this list saying that it was now finally stable in Tiger. Anyway I'm
not sure that VFS would be quite what I'm looking for (please excuse
my ignorance, I'm usually an application developer).
Please ignore the other suggestions you've been abused with to date;
including the reference to volfs which isn't very helpful for a
variety of
reasons.
If you are looking to make a straight pathname->pathname transformation,
i.e. you're able to use lookup by pathname on the base filesystem, you
should take a look at WebDAVfs.
Essentially, it presents a filesystem hierarchy as represented on the
server, but backs it with cache files in a directory on a local
filesystem;
this is the same disconnect between namespace geometries that
I think you're looking for.
If you're able to post a few more details on the namespace transform
that you're looking to achieve, it might be possible to offer some more
concrete suggestions, however I think for most cases the WebDAVfs
model will work fine.
= Mike
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