From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Tobias Pflug <tobias.pflug@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VFS design question
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 11:06:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <464F3CB2.9060401@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1179569656.6558.349.camel@toontown>
Tobias Pflug wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A note in front: I realize that my question is rather broad and a bit
> vague, sorry for that :)
>
> The VFS is a great solution to transparently operate on different file
> systems by designating an interface for file systems that separates
> file system specific code from higher levels.
>
> Doesn't however this very feature also represent a limiting factor in
> some way? Surely you can map pretty much anything to the Common File
> System model, but is or has the VFS interface design been limiting
> in any way in contemporary file system design ?
>
Why does this sound like "do my homework for me"?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-19 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-19 10:14 VFS design question Tobias Pflug
2007-05-19 18:06 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-19 21:51 ` Tobias Pflug
2007-05-19 22:27 ` Bernd Eckenfels
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