File System Stacks in Clive

In clive, The different file systems and file system tools can be combined and used together to provide features like file access, backups, history dumps, and performance measurement. For example, this is a non-trivial stack out of the multiple ones we use:

This stack traces calls made to a caching file system that relies on a local file system to cache a remote file system (wait, there is more), the remote file system serves a caching file file system that relies on a local memory-only file system to cache a local file system (at the remote machine). Confusing, isn't it? But that is the nice thing, that you can build complex stacks out of simple file system trees.

This is an example of code:

             zx1, err := lfs.New("a tree", "/foo", lfs.RW)
             zx2, err := mfs.New("a cache")
             tr1 := trfs.New(zx1)
             tr2 := trfs.New(zx2)

             cfs, err := cfs.New("a cached tree", tr1, tr2, cfs.RW)
             err := <- cfs.Mkdir("/a/b", zx.Dir{"mode:": "0775"})

This code builds a different stack: Creates a ZX tree for an underlying UNIX tree at /foo, and then a ram-only file tree, a tree that traces calls to the first, one that traces calls to the second, and a caching file tree that relies on the two tracing trees. Now we can trace calls to a cached file tree and see the calls to each one of the trees (the cache and the cached ones).



There is yet another draft of how stacks work in Clive in the clive file system stacks TR found in the Lsub web site.