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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3
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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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