Subject: VFS From: proven@Athena.MIT.EDU Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1991 16:49:41 -0500
For those interested, the VFS is currently in pre-alpha stage. I'll try to
have an alpha release Sunday night if anyone is interested. It's kinda messy
and half the files in the fs directory are unrecognizable from linux-0.11.
I plan to get it all cleaned up and ready for linux-0.12 release.
The VFS add functionallity to accomidate multiple filesystems, and I do plan
to implement a few when I'm done with the VFS. It will also have
functionallity for file types. It should contain all the functionallity
of the old linux fs and only two system calls will have different interfaces
mount and unmount. I have not put any hooks in for
select, so if someone wants to do them thats fine, but I'd suggest starting
with a kernel with the VFS in place or one of us is going to have
a royal good time incorporating the others modifications.
I'll work on additional fs functionallity when I'm done with the VFS, and
the list is quite long, but the first thing to do is finish what I've started.
CAP