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User Mode File Servers

Bruce Janson, Bruce Janson

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Recent releases of the UNIXÒ operating system provide support for network file systems. Network file systems extend the hierarchical file system name space by allowing remote file systems to appear as sub-trees within the local file system. In this article we show how the basis of a user mode file server which supports such a network file system may also be used as a server for a variety of other, non-standard, file system types. October 24, User Mode File Servers Bruce Janson bruce@basser.cs.su.oz Basser Department of Computer Science University of Sydney 1. Introduction In many older operating systems, including UNIXÒ, the kernel, acting as a single large subroutine library, is the primary service provider. Modification of such monolithic kernels is an error prone activity. Nevertheless, such kernels do need to be modified whenever a new service is to be provided. Recent releases of the UNIX operating system have begun to provide support for network file systems (e.g. netfs Wei...

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Janson, B., & Janson, B. (2007). User Mode File Servers.

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Janson, Bruce, and Bruce Janson. “User Mode File Servers.” 2007.

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Janson, Bruce, and Bruce Janson. 2007. “User Mode File Servers.”

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@article{janson2007user,
  title = {{User Mode File Servers}},
  author = {Janson, Bruce and Janson, Bruce},
  year = {2007}
}

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