[ug-bosug] Some interesting news

[Moinak Ghosh]

Hi Folks,

   A couple of recent developments:

First working version of DTrace for FreeBSD has been released:

http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/06/05/29/1144234.shtml

ZFS is being ported to Linux as a FUSE Plugin. This avoids the
conflict with GPL:

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bonwick?entry=zfs_on_fuse_linux

For those who are not familiar with FUSE, it stands for Filesystem
In Userspace. Essentially it is a framework that allows filesystem
modules to be written as ordinary plugin libraries instead of
fiddling with Kernel internals. The framework provides for
the filesystem calls in the Kernel to be redirected to va normal
userspace library. This allows a variety of interesting stuff like
mounting a Website as a filesystem via HTTP-FUSE!  There is
even a Linux LiveCD that uses HTTP-FUSE to pull filesystem
data from from a remote website, if you have a network connection.

See:  http://fuse.sourceforge.net/

In addition there is an OpenSolaris project to port FUSE to
OpenSolaris:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fuse/

Regards,
Moinak.

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