Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:16:45 +0100 | | From | Dobrica Pavlinusic <> | | Subject | Re: [fuse-devel] Merging? |
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 03:31:31PM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:49:35 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> escribió: > > Well, there doesn't seem to be a great rush to include FUSE in the > > kernel. Maybe they just don't realize what they are missing out on ;) > > > > So if any of you would like to support this motion, you can mail the > > linux-kernel list and maybe Linus and Andrew, to generate a little > > discussion on why (or why not) inclusion is a good idea. > > -Possibility to write stupid filesystems like "gmailfs".
Not to mention Fuse::DBI which allows you to mount relational database as a file-system. Imagine editing templates from your CMS with vi. Joy, right?
Back to serious notes, having ability to write filesystems in user-space is something that micro kernels (like HURD or plan9) had for a long time and it's extremely useful if file-system semantic is mappable to problem at hand.
That would also help reduce kernel bloat because you could write something like umsdos in user-space where it belongs in first place.
-- Dobrica Pavlinusic 2share!2flame dpavlin@rot13.org Unix addict. Internet consultant. http://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin
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