From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755343AbYDMIBq (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:01:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751589AbYDMIBh (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:01:37 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:43745 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751444AbYDMIBg (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:01:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:01:30 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: Bob Copeland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Message-ID: <20080413080130.GA9622@infradead.org> References: <1208041121-26787-1-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com> <20080412170304.54f139e2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413033344.GA27494@hash.localnet> <20080412205544.5e12a7d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080412205544.5e12a7d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:55:44PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 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. No way. For a normal foreign block filesystem a proper kernel implementation is much better. And this one is particularly well-written. Lately I really start wondering why we keep adding crap all over the core, but if we have a modular new filesystem that's quite nice people start complaining. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ---end quoted text---