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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-10-20 00:55:49 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2010-10-20 00:55:49 +0200
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parenta4ab25236884f6cd10f56e61f2aab04258e78b1b (diff)
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@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ An index of things to work on w.r.t. virtualization.
* [[GSoC project proposal|community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization]]
+ * [[hurd/subhurd]] / [[hurd/neighborhurd]]
+
* Linux
* [[Virtual_Square_View-OS]]
@@ -27,3 +29,5 @@ An index of things to work on w.r.t. virtualization.
* [Divorcing namespaces from
processes](http://lwn.net/Articles/377109/), 2010-03-03
+
+ * [[file_systems]]
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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_hurd]]
+
+Of course, it is possible to use commodity file systems on [[virtualized
+systems|virtualization]], like [[hurd/translator/ext2fs]] or
+[[hurd/translator/nfs]], but there are also other possibilities which ought to
+be explored.
+
+ * [[network_file_system_by_just_forwarding_RPCs]]
+
+ * Linux saw a patch for [*generic name to handle and open by handle
+ syscalls*](http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/46648) posted,
+ which in turn can be beneficial for a [[QEMU]] emulation of a 9P file
+ system.