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Re: Can we use a rump kernel to implement ext4?
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Joshua Branson |
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Re: Can we use a rump kernel to implement ext4? |
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Fri, 04 May 2018 16:49:32 -0400 |
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Luca Dariz <luca.dariz@gmail.com> writes:
> Il 02/05/2018 20:17, Joshua Branson ha scritto:
>>
>> Slightly related question, I just quickly read the intro text to the
>> rump kernel on rumpkernel.org. And I read
>>
>> "We solve the problem by providing free, reusable, componentized, kernel
>> quality drivers such as file systems..."
>>
>> Could someone use a rump kernel to implement more modern filsystems?
>> The Hurd currently mainly just uses ext2 at the moment...
>
> I'm not sure about rumpkernel (but I guess the answer is yes), anyway
> this is already possible with my LKL port.
> In fact I modified libfuse to implement the test reading an ext4 image;
> it should be easy to include other filesystem.
Huh. I've never heard of LKL. That's pretty cool!
>
> Luca