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FromNick Piggin <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans
DateThu, 15 Jan 2009 17:45:13 +1100
On Thursday 08 January 2009 19:39:02 Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > I don't know how stable fuse APIs are (ie. whether we'd just be handing
> > the anchors to FUSE), but if it is very stable, then it would be nice to
> > push a lot of them out of the kernel (although OTOH the old ones tend not
> > to have complex interactions with mm or block layer).
>
> Fuse APIs are very stable, so pushing old filesystems out to userspace
> makes sense.  Porting them, however, is not entirely trivial.  Amit
> Singh (of MacFUSE) got minix, ufs and sysvfs to work on OSX using only
> lightly modified linux source code.  That framework could probably be
> used to port other filesystems to userspace.

That might be nice. OTOH it is just a random suggestion from me. I don't
know what core fs developers think about requiring fuse and user code to
mount these old things...

Would we have to distribute the user code with the kernel? I guess then
we would still need to maintain it, but I guess the key improvement would
be that fuse APIs are very stable.



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