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diff --git a/hurd/ng/usecaseuserfilesystem.mdwn b/hurd/ng/usecaseuserfilesystem.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6dce5670 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/ng/usecaseuserfilesystem.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +### <a name="User_Loadable_Filesystems"> User Loadable Filesystems </a> + +These appear as _translators_ in the current Hurd and something similar needs to appear in the next hurd. + +* 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 + +Anything else? + +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. + +-- [[Main/SamMason]] - 11 Jan 2007 |