From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
ksummit@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS/KERNEL SUMMIT] Trust and maintenance of file systems
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:05:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZP5nxdbazqirMKAA@dread.disaster.area> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230909224230.3hm4rqln33qspmma@moria.home.lan>
On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 06:42:30PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 08:50:39AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > So why can't we figure out that easier way? What's wrong with trying to
> > figure out if we can do some sort of helper or library set that assists
> > supporting and porting older filesystems. If we can do that it will not
> > only make the job of an old fs maintainer a lot easier, but it might
> > just provide the stepping stones we need to encourage more people climb
> > up into the modern VFS world.
>
> What if we could run our existing filesystem code in userspace?
You mean like lklfuse already enables?
https://github.com/lkl/linux
Looks like the upstream repo is currently based on 6.1, so there's
already a mechanism to use relatively recent kernel filesystem
implementations as a FUSE filesystem without needed to support a
userspace code base....
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
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Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-30 14:07 [MAINTAINERS/KERNEL SUMMIT] Trust and maintenance of file systems Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-05 23:06 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-05 23:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-06 2:09 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-06 15:06 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-06 15:59 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-06 19:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-09-08 8:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-07 0:46 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2023-09-09 12:50 ` James Bottomley
2023-09-09 15:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-10 19:51 ` James Bottomley
2023-09-10 20:19 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-09-10 21:15 ` Guenter Roeck
2023-09-11 3:10 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-09-11 19:03 ` James Bottomley
2023-09-12 0:23 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-12 16:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2023-09-09 22:42 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-09-10 8:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-09-10 8:37 ` Bernd Schubert
2023-09-10 16:35 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-09-10 17:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-09-10 17:35 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-09-11 1:05 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2023-09-11 1:29 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-09-11 2:07 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-11 13:35 ` David Disseldorp
2023-09-11 17:45 ` Bart Van Assche
2023-09-11 19:11 ` David Disseldorp
2023-09-11 23:05 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-26 5:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2023-09-08 8:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-08 22:47 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-06 22:32 ` Guenter Roeck
2023-09-06 22:54 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-07 0:53 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2023-09-07 3:14 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-07 1:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-09-07 2:22 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-07 2:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-09-07 3:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-07 8:04 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-09-07 10:29 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-07 11:18 ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2023-09-07 12:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-07 12:57 ` Guenter Roeck
2023-09-07 13:56 ` Christian Brauner
2023-09-08 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-07 3:38 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-07 11:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-09-13 16:43 ` Eric Sandeen
2023-09-13 16:58 ` Guenter Roeck
2023-09-13 17:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-09-15 22:48 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-16 19:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-09-16 21:50 ` James Bottomley
2023-09-17 1:40 ` NeilBrown
2023-09-17 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-09-17 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-09-17 18:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-09-17 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-09-18 11:14 ` Jan Kara
2023-09-18 17:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-09-18 19:32 ` Jiri Kosina
2023-09-18 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-09-18 20:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-09-18 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-09-18 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2023-09-19 4:56 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-25 9:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-27 22:23 ` Dave Kleikamp
2023-09-19 1:15 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-19 5:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-19 16:34 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-09-19 16:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-19 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-09-19 22:57 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-18 14:54 ` Bill O'Donnell
2023-09-19 2:44 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-19 16:57 ` James Bottomley
2023-09-25 9:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-25 14:14 ` Dan Carpenter
2023-09-25 16:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-09-07 9:48 ` Dan Carpenter
2023-09-07 11:04 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-09-07 11:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2023-09-07 12:24 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-09-07 11:23 ` Dan Carpenter
2023-09-07 12:30 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-09-12 9:50 ` Richard Biener
2023-10-23 5:19 ` Eric Gallager
2023-09-08 8:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-08 8:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-09-08 23:21 ` Dave Chinner
2023-09-07 0:48 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2023-09-07 3:07 ` Guenter Roeck
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