>- implement a real userland fs layer that can cope with lseek(2) (and isn't
>  a hack layer over the NFS protocol as in sharity-light);

i, for one, have always wondered why the portal file system didn't
hand back descriptors that could handle a seek.  that seems (to me, at
least) like a better thing to "fix".

or maybe i'm just on crack again...  :)

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