site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On May 18, 2005, at 12:13 PM, darwin-dev-request@lists.apple.com wrote: From: Hamish Allan <hamish.allan@gold.ac.uk> 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). 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. 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 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... 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. 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. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com