From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:42:15 +0100 Message-ID: <20080414094215.GD2076@shareable.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> <1208121358.2700.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, 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 mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:35792 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751297AbYDNJm3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:42:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Miklos Szeredi wrote: > And I didn't advocate moving > ntfs to fuse, still that was done Yes, that's quite annoying as FUSE doesn't work with my architecture, so I can't use the only good NTFS driver.... grr! :-) FUSE is great for user-mounted filesystems, though. Having to use "su" in shell scripts which modify loopback filesystems was always very ugly. I don't see why we need such a dichotomy, though. The VFS API is sensible enough that it should be possible to compile the same filesystem code to run in kernel or in FUSE. -- Jamie