Re: [Dazuko-devel] RedirFS and Dazuko Filter

[John Ogness]

Frantisek Hrbata wrote:
> For more information please see the RedirFS project site at www.redirfs.org.
> 
> RedirFS INSTALL file - 
> http://www.redirfs.org/svn/redirfs/trunk/src/redirfs/INSTALL
> Dazuko Filter INSTALL file - 
> http://www.redirfs.org/svn/redirfs/trunk/src/dazukoflt/INSTALL
> 
> RedirFS is intended as a general framework which will allow to redirect all 
> operations in VFS objects.
> I think that a lot of interesting Filters can be written using the RedirFS 
> Framework(e.g. UnionFS, 
> CompressFS, CryptographicFS, ACLs etc.)
> 
> I will be thankful for all your feedbacks.

Hi Frantisek,

I am happy to see that you were able to turn RedirFS into a project that
lives beyond your research. I enjoyed reading your thesis. It is quite
good, especially with the explanation of VFS on Linux. Such information
is actually quite hard to find. It was good to see everything summarized
in a single paper.

I was also happy to see that you are providing a Dazuko filter. This
makes it possible for Dazuko-based applications to use RedirFS without
requiring any re-compiling of the applications.

Dazuko 2.2.0 had an important bugfix related to a locking problem, so it
will be important that the patch is against 2.2.0. I will look into
merging the patch into the Dazuko codebase.

I look forward to seeing your progress with RedirFS (although I still
believe overlaying filesystems is the way to go for Dazuko).

John Ogness

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Dazuko Maintainer