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| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/gsoc/project_ideas/xmlfs.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | community/weblogs/ArneBab/technical-advantages-of-the-hurd.mdwn | 13 |
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn index 28c95626..99befbf7 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack.mdwn @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ lwip as a complete replacement for pfinet. However, lwip uses the netdde device drivers for wireless chips, which are old drivers from an old version of linux. To use lwip for a wifi connection on more modern hardware, one would also need modern device drivers to access the internet. The promising approach to this is using -a rump kernel. This is essentially the New Driver Framework google summer of +[[hurd/rump/rumpnet]]. This is essentially the [[New Driver Framework|community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code]] google summer of code project idea. Hopefully, one day soon the Hurd project will completely replace pfinet with lwip. diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xmlfs.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xmlfs.mdwn index 5e5eaa13..41c0b018 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xmlfs.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/xmlfs.mdwn @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ different format. This is a very powerful ability: it allows using standard tools on all kinds of data, and combining existing components in new ways, once you have the necessary translators. -A typical example for such a translator would be xmlfs: a translator that +A typical example for such a translator would be [[hurd/translator/xmlfs]]: a translator that presents the contents of an underlying XML file in the form of a directory tree, so it can be studied and edited with standard filesystem tools, or using a graphical file manager, or to easily extract data from an XML file in a diff --git a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/technical-advantages-of-the-hurd.mdwn b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/technical-advantages-of-the-hurd.mdwn index 35e55518..b2fa5585 100644 --- a/community/weblogs/ArneBab/technical-advantages-of-the-hurd.mdwn +++ b/community/weblogs/ArneBab/technical-advantages-of-the-hurd.mdwn @@ -15,13 +15,22 @@ The filesystem implements stuff like Gnome VFS (gvfs) and KDE **network transpar One practical advantage of this is that the following works: - settrans -a ftp\: /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs / - dpkg -i ftp://ftp.gnu.org/path/to/*.deb + $ settrans -a ftp\: /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs / + $ dpkg -i ftp://ftp.gnu.org/path/to/*.deb This installs all deb-packages in the folder `path/to` on the FTP server. The shell sees normal directories (beginning with the directory “ftp:”), so shell expressions just work. You could even define a Gentoo mirror translator (`settrans mirror\: /hurd/gentoo-mirror`), so every program could just access mirror://gentoo/portage-2.2.0_alpha31.tar.bz2 and get the data from a mirror automatically: `wget mirror://gentoo/portage-2.2.0_alpha31.tar.bz2` +How about mounting a remote ISO file? Now that we can access ftp.gnu.org transparently, +this is trivial! + + $ settrans -c mnt /hurd/iso9660fs $PWD/ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/gnu-f2/hurd-F2-main.iso + $ ls mnt/ + +It is interesting to note that since the ISO9660 format is indexed, ftpfs does not have to +download the whole ISO file, it merely fetches what iso9660fs requests. + Or you could add a unionmount translator to root which makes writes happen at another place. **Every user is able to make a readonly system readwrite** by just specifying where the writes should go. But the writes **only affect his view of the filesystem**. Starting a network process is done by a translator, too: The first time something accesses the network card, the network translator starts up and actually provides the device. This replaces most **initscripts in the Hurd: Just add a translator to a node**, and the service will persist over restarts. |