On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 09:28 PM, Marek Kozubal wrote:

We are creating a custom file system to view and access the contents

of a

locally-connected (Firewire) storage device from the Mac OS X desktop.

We would like to share this device and its contents over AFP to other

macs, but have been unsuccessful so far.

What is the mode of failure?

Is it possible to share a proprietary file system over AFP from Mac OS

X?

As long as your proprietary file system supports POSIX semantics, I believe it is possible to share it over AFP.

Or is AppleFileServer "hard coded" for sharing only HFS+, UFS, and

cd9660

file systems?

I doubt it. I know at least 1 instance of AFP serving NFS files....

If it is possible, is there a particular function or attribute/flag we

need to add to our file system or vnodes? I'm guessing volfs support

(as

described in Technical Q&A QA1113) is required by AppleFileServer, but

is

there anything else?

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 -- Umesh Vaishampayan Apple Computer, Inc. Mac OS X Kernel Ph: (408) 974 0229 _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.