Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export.

William Stearns
2003-05-08T16:53:44Z

Good day, all,

On 8 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> > There is NO reason a custom filesystem cannot be layered over other
> > filesystems. It might not be done today (though the references to "userfs"
> > keep showing up in such discussions).
>
> Erez Zadoz (not sure of the spelling) did some stacking fs modules on
> Linux

Erez Zadok maintains the FiST (File System Translator) project at
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/fist/ . For those not familiar
with the project, one writes an upper level filesystem that can modify VFS
requests or results, providing a VFS proxy.
Cheers,
- Bill

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