Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 09 January 2009 23:31:09 Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > Greg Freemyer escribió:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I just came across a new package.
> > >
> > > It is very young in its development, but it may have some basic
> > > functionality by summer and I would love to see it in OS 11.2.
> > >
> > > It is a HSM (Hierarchical Storage Manager). 
> > > http://code.google.com/p/fscops/
> >
> > You can create a package of it and submit it to Contrib ;)
>
> There are going to be patches to the kernel.  And I don't think they
> can be implemented as a module.  ie. the interface is pretty intrusive
> to the filesystem.  I think they are looking at ext3 for their first
> effort.

Look at kernel-module-packages (KMPs), that might be an option how to do it - 
and kmps should be possible in contrib,

Andreas
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