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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!news.wco.com!HSNX.wco.com!news.walltech.com!newsfeed1.aimnet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed5.bbnplanet.com!pandora.cric.com!das-news2.harvard.edu!oitnews.harvard.edu!cmcl2.nyu.edu!newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu!news.cc.sunysb.edu!cshapiro From: cshapiro@ic.sunsyb.edu (Carl S Shapiro) 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) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Date: 10 Mar 1997 08:38:19 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5g0h9r$beo$1@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> References: <5e6qd5$ivq@cynic.portal.ca> <5fjek4$gtm@cynic.portal.ca> <5fl7gf$urs@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <5flmlf$6a3@cynic.portal.ca> <5fqva4$mua@panix2.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparky.cc.sunysb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:165794 comp.os.linux.networking:72862 comp.os.linux.setup:103782 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6427 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2868 Thor Lancelot Simon (tls@panix.com) wrote: [...] : Heh. Take a look at the paper on the straight-up port of Sprite to run on top : of Mach 3.0. That's about as fair a comparison as you'll get, I think. M. D. Kupfer, "Sprite on Mach", Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Mach Symposium (April 1993). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/sprite/papers/spritemach.ps.Z : The paper "The File System Belongs In The Kernel" from the Sprite project (I : don't recall the author offhand) seems fairly appropriate here, as well. B. Welch, "The File System Belongs in the Kernel", Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Mach Syposium (November 1991), pages 233-250. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/sprite/papers/fs-in-kernel.ps Carl