Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:00:27 +0100 | | From | Jamie Lokier <> | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Lee Revell wrote: > Same here. This always seemed like something the kernel should be able > to handle. It seems to me that if reiser4 had been available at the > time the Gnome and KDE developers would not have needed to do this.
reiser4 has prompted the discussion again, but it doesn't provide the virtual filesystem capabilities that we're talking about, which Gnome and KDE implement in userspace. The FUSE project is much more relevant for that.
We had file-as-directory discussions years ago, and 5 years ago I was experimenting with doing virtual filesystems with that capability over NFS.
podfuk offered something close to Gnome and KDE but in kernel space: virtual filesytems accessible through the kernel, but it didn't get too popular. It was based on Midnight Commander's VFS (which has evolved into Gnome's VFS), using the CODA filesystem interface to provide the kernel hooks. It had some problems, and was a bit fiddly to use. We still don't have something that's particularly nice to use for ordinary users.
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