From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:32:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:32:30 -0400 Received: from ip122-15.asiaonline.net ([202.85.122.15]:60289 "EHLO uranus.planet.rcn.com.hk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 05:32:28 -0400 Message-ID: <3BAB0858.C22F5177@rcn.com.hk> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:28:56 +0800 From: David Chow Organization: Resources Computer Network Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [zh_TW] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4-1DC i686) X-Accept-Language: zh_TW, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Wrapfs a stackable file system Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I am rewriting he wrapfs from the fist project and is now in a debugging stage, it is now quite ready for experimental tests. The idea is orinigally from FiST, a stackable file system. But the FiST owner Erez seems given up to maintain the project. At the time I receive the code, it is so buggy, even unusable, lots of segmentation fault problems. I have debugging the fs for quite a while. Now it is useful in just use as a file system wrapper. It is useful in chroot environments and hardlinks aren't available. It wraps a directory and mount to another directory on tops of any filesystems. I wish to maintain this file system development since FiST's idea is good. It allow to use this base wrapfs as a template and then you can do encryption and other operations on it with fast development time. If any kernel file system maintainer is interested, please contact me .. I would like to get help to finish up my debugging work. The result will be GPL'ed. I will also package it with the fistgen package as a file system development tool. Thanks. regards. David Chow