Re: sharing custom filesystem
Re: sharing custom filesystem
- Subject: Re: sharing custom filesystem
- From: Umesh Vaishampayan <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:10:48 -0700
On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 09:28 PM, Marek Kozubal wrote:
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We are creating a custom file system to view and access the contents
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of a
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locally-connected (Firewire) storage device from the Mac OS X desktop.
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We would like to share this device and its contents over AFP to other
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macs, but have been unsuccessful so far.
What is the mode of failure?
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Is it possible to share a proprietary file system over AFP from Mac OS
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X?
As long as your proprietary file system supports POSIX semantics, I
believe it is possible to share it over AFP.
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Or is AppleFileServer "hard coded" for sharing only HFS+, UFS, and
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cd9660
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file systems?
I doubt it. I know at least 1 instance of AFP serving NFS files....
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If it is possible, is there a particular function or attribute/flag we
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need to add to our file system or vnodes? I'm guessing volfs support
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(as
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described in Technical Q&A QA1113) is required by AppleFileServer, but
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is
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there anything else?
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AFP server is a user land daemon. Volfs support should not a be
requirement because UFS and NFS do not support it and those are
sharable using AFP....
Must be something else.
--Umesh
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Umesh Vaishampayan Apple Computer, Inc.
Mac OS X Kernel Ph: (408) 974 0229
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