From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:55:44 -0700 Message-ID: <20080412205544.5e12a7d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1208041121-26787-1-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com> <20080412170304.54f139e2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413033344.GA27494@hash.localnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Bob Copeland Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:46871 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754862AbYDMD4Q (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:56:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080413033344.GA27494@hash.localnet> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:33:44 -0400 Bob Copeland wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 05:03:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Adding a new FS to Linux is a pretty major thing. > > > > - A key question (which you don't seem to have addressed at all!) is: why > > is this a useful addition to Linux? What are the filesystem's strengths? > > What is its application? How does it improves Linux and by how much? > > Honestly, I'm not sure if this FS is mainline material or not. OIC. > If it is, > it is in the sense that the Amiga FS, befs, and so forth are useful: > 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.