[ale] School Project to Create Distributed Filesystem

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Mike Fletcher)]

Omar Chanouha wrote:
> Also, no one on our team has done any kernel hacking before, so any
> advice AT ALL as related to kernel hacking in general is appreciated.
> Any wisdoms you may have learned, anything you would have like to know
> when you were getting started, any opinion at all is welcome.
>   
If you don't have any experience mucking in the kernel then the best 
advice is probably "don't; use FuSE instead".
FuSE will let you do everything as user-land processes instead of in the 
kernel.  It also has the benefit of being (to some degree) 
cross-platform (I know of versions for at least FreeBSD and OS X) rather 
than Linux-only.


http://fuse.sourceforge.net/