Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:55:44 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 |
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:33:44 -0400 Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 05:03:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Adding a new FS to Linux is a pretty major thing. > > > > - A key question (which you don't seem to have addressed at all!) is: why > > is this a useful addition to Linux? What are the filesystem's strengths? > > What is its application? How does it improves Linux and by how much? > > Honestly, I'm not sure if this FS is mainline material or not.
OIC.
> If it is, > it is in the sense that the Amiga FS, befs, and so forth are useful: > it's a dead filesystem that a very few people still have a reason to > use. If FUSE is where this should live, then I'll just simply focus my > time on that instead (since I already have it in FUSE).
Yes, pursuing the FUSE implementation sounds a better approach - it avoids burdening the kernel with a filesysstem which few will be interested in and is more practical for use by those who _are_ interested in it.
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