Bug 23419

Summary:	ebuild: plasticfs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sean P. Kane <spkane>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	x86-kernel (DEPRECATED) <x86-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	steel300
Priority:	High	Keywords:	EBUILD
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://plasticfs.sourceforge.net/
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	The PlasticFS Ebuild

Description Sean P. Kane 2003-06-24 16:26:41 UTC

The Plastic File System 1.7

plastic, adj. Capable of being shaped or formed, malleable.

The Plastic File System is an LD_PRELOAD module for manipulating what the file
system looks like for programs. This allows virtual file systems to exist in
user space, without kernel hacks or modules. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:





It would be nice to see this added as sys-apps/plasticfs or some such.

Comment 1 Sean P. Kane 2003-06-24 16:27:17 UTC

Created attachment 13803 [details]
The PlasticFS Ebuild

Comment 2 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-17 06:44:00 UTC

Seems to be an interesting app. The only problem is it won't work with glibc-2.2 and 2.3, unless we have a special version of glibc prepared (see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2735794&forum_id=26320). Any comments on this?

Comment 3 Jason Cox (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-29 12:50:48 UTC

I'd opt against this one. The changes to glibc are not something I'd really like to toy with to make this work. It's an intersting iea, but needs to be reworked some.

Comment 4 Jason Cox (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-08 19:06:19 UTC

Any more updates on this? Perhaps the author of this bug report could comment. What does the rest of the kernel team think of this?

Comment 5 Jason Cox (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-09 07:38:01 UTC

Plasticfs is not something which justifies toying with glibc. It appears the author lost interest, so I'm closing and marking won't fix.