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    SubjectRe: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans
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    On Thursday 08 January 2009 19:39:02 Miklos Szeredi wrote:
    > On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Nick Piggin wrote:
    > > I don't know how stable fuse APIs are (ie. whether we'd just be handing
    > > the anchors to FUSE), but if it is very stable, then it would be nice to
    > > push a lot of them out of the kernel (although OTOH the old ones tend not
    > > to have complex interactions with mm or block layer).
    >
    > Fuse APIs are very stable, so pushing old filesystems out to userspace
    > makes sense. Porting them, however, is not entirely trivial. Amit
    > Singh (of MacFUSE) got minix, ufs and sysvfs to work on OSX using only
    > lightly modified linux source code. That framework could probably be
    > used to port other filesystems to userspace.

    That might be nice. OTOH it is just a random suggestion from me. I don't
    know what core fs developers think about requiring fuse and user code to
    mount these old things...

    Would we have to distribute the user code with the kernel? I guess then
    we would still need to maintain it, but I guess the key improvement would
    be that fuse APIs are very stable.



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