Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:31:31 +0100 | | From | Diego Calleja <> | | Subject | Re: [fuse-devel] Merging? |
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El Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:49:35 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> escribió:
> 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.
Personally I think it's cool for "desktops" and other reasons because:
-It could replace gnome-vfs AND kioslaves by a more generic solution that works for all environments
-You could implement several "not-performance-critical" filesystems (fat, isofs) with FUSE to avoid possible security issues. Give that nowadays usb sticks and cd/dvds are so common it'd be possible to modify a filesystem on purpose to crash the kernel if a bug were found in those filesytems. With FUSE that posibility decreases.
-Since you can use other programming languages, I suposse it'd be easier for people to write support for weird filesystems.
-Better for kernel (less code to maintain given a big number of filesystems) and less pressure for VFS developers when making big changes to the VFS.
-Possibility to write stupid filesystems like "gmailfs".
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