Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:35:12 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace |
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Please consider adding the FUSE filesystem to the mainline kernel.
Quite frankly I think it's too messy.
I'd like FUSE a whole lot more if it _only_ did the general page cache reading, but it seems to do a whole lot more, most of it broken.
In other words, I think it's fundamentally wrong to not have a special "fuse_file_read". If it isn't just "generic_file_read()" (possibly together with a re-validation callback but even that is very debatable indeed) there's something wrong with it imho.
The code looks like it was started before the page cache was all done, and nobody ever cleaned it up to use the full VFS power - or for some suspect reason decided that they wanted to support insane filesystems.
Together with removing the 2.4.x code and sending a real patch that has the cleanups, and maybe I'd reconsider.
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