From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Terry Barnaby Subject: Re: Inherited Filesystem for Linux Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:22:17 +0100 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4088E049.3040803@beam.ltd.uk> References: <40800BDB.3060104@beam.ltd.uk> <20040416174929.GA18647@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Terry Barnaby , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from portal.beam.ltd.uk ([62.49.82.227]:42697 "EHLO beam.beamnet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264769AbUDWJW0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 05:22:26 -0400 To: Herbert Poetzl In-Reply-To: <20040416174929.GA18647@MAIL.13thfloor.at> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hi Herbert, Thanks for setting up this Wiki for the template file system I have added a few bits if that is Ok ? Some words I notice missing from the Keywords and on the main page is "Inherited" and "IFS". This is sometimes used for this type of file system. Cheers Terry Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 05:37:47PM +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Is there or is anyone working on an Inherited file sustem for Linux >>(2.6.x kernels) ? >>I have seen very old postings on this issue but nothing recent. >> >>If not is there any good documentation on how to implement a kernel >>filesystem ? >> >>My application is a number of diskless nodes that I would like to share >>a basic file system, but allowing each node to have differing files >>for configuration differences etc. So any writes made to the >>Inherited file system would result in a file copy from the underlying file >>system and a write to the newly copied file. > > > maybe this provides a good starting point: > > http://vserver.13thfloor.at/TBVFS/ > > best, > Herbert > > >>Cheers >> >>Terry >>-- >>Dr Terry Barnaby BEAM Ltd >>Phone: +44 1454 324512 Northavon Business Center, Dean Rd >>Fax: +44 1454 313172 Yate, Bristol, BS37 5NH, UK >>Email: terry@beam.ltd.uk Web: www.beam.ltd.uk >>BEAM for: Visually Impaired X-Terminals, Parallel Processing, Software >> "Tandems are twice the fun !" >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- Dr Terry Barnaby BEAM Ltd Phone: +44 1454 324512 Northavon Business Center, Dean Rd Fax: +44 1454 313172 Yate, Bristol, BS37 5NH, UK Email: terry@beam.ltd.uk Web: www.beam.ltd.uk BEAM for: Visually Impaired X-Terminals, Parallel Processing, Software "Tandems are twice the fun !"