VCFS is a project mainly written in C, based on the GPL-2.0 license.
Old project: Mount your CVS repositories as a read-only linux filesystem
***** Readme for VCFS test release 0.1 *****Warning: This software is in the early stages of development. Please use with caution, and report bugs through http://sourceforge.net/projects/vcfs or send email to [email protected]
Requirements: This package has only been tested on one Mandrake Linux x86 machine, running kernel 2.2.17. Your mileage may vary. If you run into any problems on any platforms, please let us know. You also must have NFS running on your system, which usually includes the following daemons:
Installation: Running 'make' gives you two executables, 'vcfsd' and 'cvstool'.
You will need a directory to export in order to bootstrap a "root" directory filehandle for your NFS client to start with. For maximum security, export an empty directory with no permissions.
Example (as root): mkdir /null chmod 0 /null
Next, you will need to create the actual vcfs mount point (mkdir /vcfs). In order for cvstool to work, set the environment variable VCFS_MOUNT to this directory. Add the mount point to your /etc/exports file (add the line "/null localhost") to export the bootstrap mount.
Now, start the vcfsd daemon to load a CVS repository. Example: vcfsd cvs.vcfs.sourceforge.net /cvsroot/vcfs vcfs anonymous
There is no password for this project. You can also run the "load_vcfs" script found in the "examples" subdirectory of the VCFS distribution.
Finally, make sure the mount daemon is running. ('rpc.mountd' as root on my system), and mount the filesystem with the following command: mount -o port=3155,intr localhost:/null /vcfs
You can also run the "mount_vcfs" script found in the "examples" subdirectory of the VCFS distribution.
You can now 'cd' to /vcfs to view your repository.
Acknowledgements: Matt Blaze's CFS, which inspired VCFS.