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Bug#145721: ITP: libferris -- a virtual file system (VFS) that runs in userspace



On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:50:55PM +0200, Christian Kesselheim wrote:
> libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all
> kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using
> C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each datum
> to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various data
> sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting EA.
> Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event
> updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount
> a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox
> (mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation
> decoders. 

It would be good to know what license this package uses.

The upstream URL would be nice as well; if there isn't one, please
mention the fact.

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