Subject: Userfs 0.7.1 OOPS release
From: [email-masked] (Jeremy Fitzhardinge)
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 18:56:14 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

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		 Announcing: userfs ALPHA version 0.7.1

(Note: this is an Oops release.  There is very little different from
0.7, other than the inclusion of a couple of important files I left
out.)

Userfs is a mechanism by which normal user processes can be a Linux
filesystem, similar to Plan 9 filesystems or The Hurd's translators.

This version is a loadable kernel module which only needs a very small
kernel patch.  The patch supplied is against Linux 1.1.17.

Changes in this release include:
   - More documentation
   - An improved and debugged library interface
   - More filesystems
   - More contributed stuff

The release comes with six filesystems:
   - ftpfs, a filesystem for FTP access. This allows multilple FTP
     sites to be accessed as a filesystem, with a persistent cache of
     data.
   - homer, which simply creates a directory containing symlinks
     to every user's home directory.  Mounted on /u, it makes a
     passible replacement for '~' expansion in your shell which
     works for everything.
   - intfs, an experimental filesystem in which file contents can
     be generated by arbitary shell scripts on the fly as they are
     read.
   - egfs, a very simple example/tutorial filesystem
   - arcfs, written by David Gymer, which allows a compressed tar
     file to be mounted readonly and browsed as a filesystem.
   - mailfs, a simple mail-reading filesystem

This release is available from:
	sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/ALPHA/userfs/userfs-0.7.tar.gz
	tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/ALPHA/userfs/userfs-0.7.tar.gz

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