Subject: Re: "tfs" and other filesystems with very short names
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: None <rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
List: source-changes
Date: 09/23/1998 16:15:52
Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org> writes:
> Personally, I don't care if it is codafs or coda, just so long as the
> in-kernel name (for dynamic loading, if/when that is possible for
modules will happen someday. I've never been too excited about this
because I lose symbols for debugging.
> Coda) matches the mount -t argument.
I'm not sure mount -t will ever happen. There is this HUGE "client"
side daemon that needs to be run. A client of the fs does fs ops in
/coda and they get passed queued for the venus daemon to read, process
and then write answers to. (The client does a mount internally:
mount("coda", ...)