Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 2004 19:50:34 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) |
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:46:32AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 21:50, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > and quite frankly, I think you can do the above pretty much totally in > > > user space with a small library and a daemon (in fact, ignoring security > > > issues you probably don't even need the daemon). And if you can prototype > > > it like that, and people actually find it useful, I suspect kernel support > > > for better performance might be possible. > > > > Gnome already supports this in the gnome-vfs2 layer. "MC" has supported > > it since the late 1990's. > > And nobody has asked for kernel support that I know of. > > So either "it just works" in user space, or people haven't figured out the > kernel could help them. Or decided it's not worth it, exactly because > they'd still have to support systems/filesystems that can't be converted.
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/userfs/ has code that clues gnomevfs onto a kernel filesystem. The code is horrible, but it shows that it can be done. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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