Re: VFS
Re: VFS
- Subject: Re: VFS
- From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:10:55 +0200
Le 6 oct. 08 à 13:23, Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) a écrit :
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD)
<email@hidden> wrote:
I've been poking around, trying to find more information on Apple's
implementation of VFS, but haven't been able to find much. Is it
still supported? Should I use something else?
Searching for "VFS" on developer.apple.com gives this as the
first result:
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1242.html
I'm sorry, I wasn't clear in my earlier message. I saw that, and
read it before, including the following:
"Documentation for the VFS KPI is still rather rudimentary. Apple
will rectify this in the future (r. 3524590); in the meantime, this
Q&A includes a list of references to documentation and other
resources."
I have the 4.4 BSD book, and am reading through it, I googled for
VFS KPI, and got lots of hits for other systems, as well as for the
book MAC OS X Internals By Amit Singh, but I haven't seen much about
the KPI. What I'm really after is complete documentation on how the
KPI works, so I can decide if it is the right path to go down.
What I would like to do (assuming I have any free time):
I want to write an interface to my version control system (in this
case, Subversion, but it could be anything) that lets me 'mount'
different working copies (and different revisions of the same one),
in the same way that you can mount a disk image. The idea is that
the meta information (.svn, .cvs, whatever) can be fully hidden from
the mounted drive. Each modification can be an unnamed revision,
with some kind of special tool handling naming particular
modifications (or, if I can, I can make it like how CDs/DVDs have a
burn button in their toolbar, I haven't fully thought out the
interface yet). Tools that don't understand what version control is
wouldn't break the system, and using it would be more natural.
I think you may considere using Mac Fuse for this purpose.
There is a well defined Obj-C and C API. And you can also read Mac
FUSE sources to know how to write a native file system. The author of
this project is Amit Singh.
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
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| | >VFS (From: "Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD)" <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: VFS (From: "Finlay Dobbie" <email@hidden>) |
| | >RE: VFS (From: "Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD)" <email@hidden>) |