Distributed file system

[Bill Rugolsky Jr.]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:57:53AM -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
> A fun/useful project for a bored student would be to port the various
> user-space filesystems (CFS, SFS/Ivy, etc.) that use the NFS API (or
> Java APIs), to the FUSE (Filesystems in Userspace, fuse.sourceforge.net)
> API, which is currently in Andrew Morton's -mm kernel tree, awaiting
> more testing before merging.
 
Just to finish the thought: there is also gnomevfs-mount and fuse_kio
which bridges the FUSE/GNOME and FUSE/KDE VFS layers.  So if a P2P filesystem
interface is ported to either of those interfaces, it could also be used with FUSE.
But don't expect the consistency semantics to be sane after several layers
of translation. :-/

	-Bill