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lufs - Userspace filesystem framework

LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting an indefinite number of filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs, socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application. It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem calls to its supported filesystems.

However, LUFS filesystems are implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility is most important.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://lufs.sourceforge.net/
Source tarballhttp://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lufs/lufs-0.9.7.tar.gz?download
Source informationhttp://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57332
Version 0.9.7 (beta) released on 2003-10-31
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User README included
Support contacts

Help List<lufs-users@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lufs-users
Developer List<lufs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lufs-devel
Bug Databasehttp://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=57332&atid=483771

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • See the THANKS file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lufs http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=57332
Interfacesdaemon
Source languagesC, C++

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-02-03
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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