On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 23:48 -0700, UZAIR LAKHANI wrote: > Thanks for replying but consider this scenario. > > What Wrapfs code do is this > > user_request ---> vfs_request ---> wrapfs_request ---> > actual_fs_request ---> storage > > Now consider this scenario in a network environment > > (client machine) > user_request ---> vfs_request ---> wrapfs_request ---> > > Network ---> (server machine)actual_fs_request ---> > storage > > The network here gets client requests and send them to > server and vice versa. The main benefit of stackable file systems is that you do not need to duplicate the functionality found in lower-level file systems. In your scenario, you do not use the lower-level file system at all, so you will need to implement all the functionality of a lower-level file system, plus deal with all the stackable file system code (which you will use but won't need). Using wrapfs in this case will give you no benefit, and will just make your life more difficult, and your code slower and more difficult to read. I recommend you just start from scratch. Avishay Traeger http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~avishay/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
