From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:15:58 +0100 Message-ID: <1208121358.2700.4.camel@shinybook.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> <20080413080130.GA9622@infradead.org> <20080413012001.8d7967f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413082815.GA20108@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, me@bobcopeland.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:35888 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751198AbYDMVQI (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:16:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 12:37 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > There's one thing which makes fuse a slightly better candidate for > applications where the number of users is low: stability. Unless you > or your users test the hell out of your filesystem, there always a > chance that some bugs will remain. These rarely bring down the whole > system, but it usually requires a reboot to let you continue using the > Oopsing fs. I think it's a slippery slope from that to rewriting Linux as a microkernel. Simple block filesystems like this belong in the kernel. -- dwmw2