Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Security issues with local filesystem caching | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:52:21 +0100 |
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Ar Iau, 2006-10-26 am 11:14 +0200, ysgrifennodd Jan Dittmer: > Why again no local userspace daemon to do the caching? That would > put the policy out of the kernel. The additional context switches > are probably pretty cheap compared to the io operations.
It costs a lot in latency, and you don't need a daemon in the first place. If you want to do a user space caching fs of course you can already do it with FUSE..
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