Apple

If it's individual files you're handling on the server side, then a IOKit driver is the wrong way, as that's only good to handle block level drives, I believe. Instead, you'll have to implement a VFS (Virtual File System). Sadly, there is little documentation on that. And it's a lot of work, many weeks.

A few pointers from someone who hasn't even accomplished that yet:

- Read about VFS in old BSD documentations. You may even have to purchase a book on paper for that.

- Read the code, i.e. get the Darwin source and look for any functions starting with "vfs_".

- Look for open source VFS OSX implementations and study them.

And be aware that since OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) you will need to have a special signing "KEXT" certificate from Apple, for which in turn you will need to buy the yearly membership. And if you have that, you may as well send a tech support request to Apple asking for pointers on this topic.

Good luck!

Thomas

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Nick <email@hidden> wrote:

Hello list,
I have to create a kind of a virtual storage, and I need it to appear as a virtual disk drive in the system (a Volume). When the files are copied on such a "drive", they actually get sent to a server. The drive displays files, and this list of files is downloaded from a server.

Could you please point me in the right direction, where to start? Some keywords would be helpful.
What is the right way to do this?

I believe this would require implementing an IOKit kext driver?

Thank you

_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Filesystem-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:

This email sent to email@hidden

Thomas Tempelmann, http://www.tempel.org/
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tempelorg
Read my programming blog: http://blog.tempel.org/

References:
	>Virtual hard drive (From: Nick <email@hidden>)