From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] private mounts Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:56:08 +0100 Message-ID: <20050426095608.GA30554@infradead.org> References: <1114445923.4480.94.camel@localhost> <20050425191015.GC28294@mail.shareable.org> <20050426091921.GA29810@infradead.org> <20050426093628.GA30208@infradead.org> <20050426094727.GA30379@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: hch@infradead.org, jamie@shareable.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, 7eggert@gmx.de, bulb@ucw.cz, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:14256 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261450AbVDZJ4L (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2005 05:56:11 -0400 To: Miklos Szeredi Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 11:53:01AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > No. FUSE is not a suid shell, and it's definitely not crap. You are > being impolite and without a reason. So don't be surprised if you get > burned. You're model for user mounts is total crap. The rest of the fuse kernel code is quite nice (1). > > You're really falling into the Hans Reiser trap - if you just wanted to > > add a simple userland filesystem you'd be done by now, but you're trying > > to funnel new semantics in through it. Which is by far not as easy as > > adding a simple file system driver and needs a lot more though. > > I've started FUSE in 2001. Did you think it was easy getting this far? And that matters how exactly? (1) except the rather fishy get_user_pages variant. but I'm not expert enough there to comment more