Hi, On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:29:43AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> Does it mean that the store should be a single file (special file)? Not sure what you mean exactly... The specific term "store" describes a facility corresponding to block devices on traditional UNIX systems. Most commonly these are disk partitions. There are also some special types of stores, including among others a file store, i.e. a normal file acting as a store -- corresponding to loopback devices... But that's not the basic usage. > I thought that the store could be a directory, too. No. A store is an unstructured uniform data storage. > So, if I were implementing a tar file translator, I should have used > libdiskfs, do I get it right? No. A tar file doesn't contain inodes etc. It maps the directory contents relatively closely, but still quite different from a typical disk filesystem... > Frankly speaking, I didn't even suppose that libNETfs could be used > for this purposes :-) I think it's documented somewhere... But yes, the name is misleading :-( > Okay, I'm happy I've acquainted myself with libdiskfs (thought quite > superificially), and I'm diving into ftpfs now. I hope I'll be able to > cope with new information faster this time. I also hope it is not > really bad that I lost time playing with libdiskfs... As you say yourself, the time is not really lost :-) The experience you gained while looking at libdiskfs is undoubtedly very valuable... -antrik-
