Really exciting things are being added to the Haiku OS these days, and it is a joy to write about them. Yesterday Urias McCullough wrote an article about Ingo Weinhold's latest contributions to the project.

First of all, a UserlandFS has been added to the repository. The UserlandFS is designed to provide, for the first time in Haiku (and the BeOS platform), a stable and flexible environment for file system add-on development. Along with UserlandFS, Ingo has also committed several file system modules, including a Reiser FS 3.6 (one of his projects for BeOS) read-only implementation and a RAM FS (which is still work in progress).

Ingo has also implemented a third file system module, NetFS, a Haiku-specific networking file system (seen on the screenshot below). NetFS is a native Haiku network file system that provides peer-to-peer networking capabilities for computers running Haiku on a LAN and includes full support for BFS attributes and live queries.

This is some brilliant stuff that brings Haiku some major steps forward. Great work Ingo!