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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There was even somebody who did something like that for a PhD thesis, I 
> forget the details (and it apparently died when the thesis was presumably 
> accepted ;).
>
>   


You mean SpadFS[1] right ?

> 			Linus
>   

Gabriel

[1] http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/spadfs/