Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:05:43 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:58 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Oh, you mean without having to run the whole kernel around the > filesystem? Well, that's a bit more tricky: filesystems use not just > the VFS API, but the block, VM, SLAB, etc. APIs as well. Porting all > of these to userspace and keeping them in sync with the kernel changes > doesn't sound much fun.
That would be UML :)
But seriously -- wouldn't our time be better spent on improving error handling in the kernel, rather than taking advantage of the benefits of microkernel design... but only for those parts which don't matter?
-- dwmw2
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