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+### <a name="User_Loadable_Filesystems"> User Loadable Filesystems </a>
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+These appear as _translators_ in the current Hurd and something similar needs to appear in the next hurd.
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+* The user should be able to dynamically add and remove translators
+* For some reason it seems appropiate to have seperate namespaces (VFS's) for each user (this is quite a departure from Unix. [[SamMason]])
+* translators can be used to expose the structure of an archive file
+* translators can be provide access to remote file systems
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+Anything else?
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+Probably not something we want to worry about now; but I'm guessing that the semantics of the new kernel will be sufficently different from Mach that some rewriting of the existing translators will be needed. From a pragmatic point of view it would be _nice_ if there wasn't too much change.
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+-- [[Main/SamMason]] - 11 Jan 2007