[TiLP-devel] Re: Some news about TiLP & survey

[Romain <ti...@li...>]

Hi,

>> One of the downsides of making a vfs is that your code isn't portable
>> anymore. GNOME has it's own way, KDE, Windows, MacOS,... Of course mos=
t
>> of the functionality of TiLP is in its libraries, but it's still going
>> to be a lot of work if you want to support all these platforms. It sur=
e
>> won't hurt to start with a gnomevfs and see how it works out though.
>
>Why not implement a native Linux filesystem?
>
>I'm dreaming of these shell commands :-)
>
>mount -t calcfs /dev/tiusb0 /mnt/ti89
>ls /mnt/ti89
>  MY_PROGS/
>  MAIN/
>  PHOENIX/

This idea is quite interesting because it's widely independant of the
desktop and may allow to use handhelds in pure console mode, too.

Thus, I have done a research and I have found 2 ways:
- kernel mode: kernel module which will use VFS kernel capabilities: too
complex, never merged
- user mode: a daemon which will pass requests to the vfs part of the
kernel. A such project exists: lufs (Linux User File System) at
http://lufs.sf.net.

This project is living, growing and seems to work fine altough it's in
beta stage. The main drawback: it is not merged yet in 2.4 or even 2.6
kernel. And, will it be ?

I have not found any other way.
Altough the idea is wonderful, it will involve to patch and rebuild a
kernel. Too bad for a newbie !

roms.
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Romain Li=E9vin (roms) <ti...@li...>
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