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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)
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Date: 10 Mar 1997 08:38:19 GMT
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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