Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jan 2002 03:10:53 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace 0.95 |
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Hi!
> FUSE 0.95 is available (download or CVS) from: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf
(I'm offline, that's why I'm asking like that):
> What's new in 0.95 compared to 0.9 > > - Major performance improvements in both the kernel module and the > library parts. > > - Small number of bugs fixed. FUSE has been through some stress > testing and no problems have turned up yet. > > - Library interface simplified. A simple 'hello world' filesystem > can now be implemented in less than 100 lines.
Are you multithreaded? Like will big ftp download block all FUSE, all ftp, only one server, or everything?
> - Python (by Jeff Epler) and Perl (by Mark Glines) bindings are in > the works, and will be released some time in the future (now > available through CVS).
Nice!
> Problems still remaining: > > - Security problems when fuse is used by non-privileged users: > > o user can intentionally block the page writeback operation, > causing a system lockup. I'm not sure this can be solved in > a truly secure way. Ideas?
How does GRUB solve this?
> Introduction for newbies: > > FUSE provides a simple interface for userspace programs to export a > virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. FUSE also aims to provide a > secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own > filesystem implementations. > > Fuse is available for the 2.4 (and later) kernel series. > Installation is easy and does not need a kernel recompile.
Maybe it could replace sf/coda and fs/intermezzo? Is it powerfull/fast enough for that? Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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