Subject: Re: kernel hacking pointers
To: dustin sallings <dustin@spy.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 10/06/1998 11:41:10
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, dustin sallings wrote:
>
> So, I'm pretty far from a kernel hacker, but I've got a project
> I'm really wanting to get into.
>
> What I want to do is put a layer on top of the filesystem to do
> some kind of filename abstraction to rewrite a file path. I really just
> want a place to look before it looks on the disk.
You might look at the portalfs, for testing. It hooks a user process into
the filesystem. I'm not sure if it works.
Take care,
Bill