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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: User-space file systems. (Re: Linux vs BSD)
Date: 6 Mar 1997 17:00:03 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <5flftc$krn@camel2.mindspring.com>,
Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com> wrote:
> Also, I disagree with you in saying that the "most common tool"
> implemented via the microkernel was filesystems.
The most common tool that couldn't be reasonably implemented easily
in a monolithic kernel was, though. Device drivers in userland on
monolithic kernels are not that uncommon... hell, that's basically how
XFree86 works.
> Wasn't the BSD portalfs designed to make userland filesystems easier
> to implement? Whatever happened to it?
That's a darned good question.
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
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