On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Bill Studenmund wrote:

: > Which leads back around the circle to the misconception about what portalfs
: > is:  it's a portal to existing filesystems, not a filesystem of its own.
:
: Huh?

Sorry, "it's a portal to existing file descriptor sources...."

Typically, a real filesystem works at the vnode layer, and thus can provide
such services as seek, etc.

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