.\" .\" plasticfs - The Plastic File System .\" Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Peter Miller; .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software .\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA. .\" .\" MANIFEST: input for archive/PlasticFS.html .\" .ad l .hy 0 .so version.so The Plastic File System \*(v)

The Plastic File System \*(v)

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

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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.

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PlasticFS includes the following file systems:

chroot: The chroot filter may be used to simulate the effects of the chroot(2) system call, in combination with other filters. .br
dos: The dos filter may be used to simulate an 8.3 DOS file system. .br
log: The log filter may be used to transparently log file system access, similar to the strace(1) command. .br
shortname: The shortname filter may be used to simulate file systems with shorter filenames. .br
smartlink: The smartlink filter may be used to expand environment variables in symbolic links, using the usual $name notation. .br
upcase, downcase, titlecase and nocase: The upcase filter to make file names appear to be in upper-case when listed. File names are case-insensitive when being opened, etc. The downcase filetr is similar, except it converts to lower-case, titlecase capitalizes, and nocase is simply case insensitive without altering the filenames. .br
viewpath: The viewpath filter may be used to make a set of directory trees look like a single directory tree. (Also known as a union file system.) All modifications take place in the first directory in the list.
Aka: union and translucent .br
Note:: Filters may be piped from one to the next, forming powerful combinations.

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PlasticFS is currently dependent on the implementation of the GNU C Library. It is self configuring using a GNU Autoconf generated configure script. .br

Files for Download

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File Name	Description
`plasticfs-\*(v).README`	The `README` file from the tar distribution.
`plasticfs-\*(v).lsm`	Brief description in .nf LSM .fi format.
`plasticfs-\*(v).spec`	RedHat package manager specification file (RPM)
`plasticfs-\*(v).tar.gz`	The complete source.
`plasticfs-\*(v).pdf`	The Plastic File System Reference Manual, in Adobe Acrobat format.
`plasticfs-\*(v)-1.i386.rpm`	Pre-build Linux executables.
`ChangeLog`	The change log for the project.
`plasticfs-\*(v).ae`	The complete source, in aedist format.

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PlasticFS is written and owned by Peter Miller and is freely distributable under the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL.

PlasticFS is developed using .br Aegis, a transaction based software configuration management package.

There is more .br Software by Peter Miller at his home page. .br

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