Re: [PATCH V10 00/10] famfs: port into fuse

Christoph Hellwig
2026-04-17T08:04:53Z

This is the first mail without annoying and pointless full quotes,
so chiming in here. Sorry if I missed something important in all the
noise.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 03:19:36PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 at 21:44, Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Overall, my intention with bringing this up is just to make sure we're
> > at least aware of this alternative before anything is merged and
> > permanent. If Miklos and you think we should land this series, then
> > I'm on board with that.
>
> TBH, I'd prefer not to add the famfs specific mapping interface if not
> absolutely necessary.

Yes, fuse needing support for a specific file systems sounds like a
design mistake.

>This was the main sticking point originally,
> but there seemed to be no better alternative.
>
> However with the bpf approach this would be gone, which is great.

So what is this bpf magic actually trying to solve?