| Date | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:48:44 -0800 | From | Andre Eisenbach <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 |
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 00:23:52 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > - Added FUSE (filesystem in userspace) for people to play with. Am agnostic > as to whether it should be merged (haven't read it at all closely yet, > either), but I am impressed by the amount of care which has obviously gone > into it. Opinions sought.
This is great news!
As a long time user of KDE's kio-slaves, I was always missing the kio-slave functionality on the command line and in non-kde programs. FUSE provides a kio-slave interface, but hopefully the inclusion of FUSE in the mm-kernel will cause more "fuse native" filesystems to come out which provide the functionality of the various kio-slaves.
Some things I'd like to see (as I am currently using the KIO equivalent) implemented as FUSE fs: - "fish", virtual file access over ssh - "audiocd", virtual audio cd filesystem which copies and encodes audio tracks on the fly - "ftp", virtual file system ftp server access etc..
Imagination is the limit, and since it can be implemented in userspace pretty easily with FUSE, I am looking forward to see what people can come up with and hope that FUSE is here to sray.
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