Re: [ANNOUNCE] FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace 0.95

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> FUSE 0.95 is available (download or CVS) from:
> 
>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf

(I'm offline, that's why I'm asking like that):

> What's new in 0.95 compared to 0.9
> 
>    - Major performance improvements in both the kernel module and the
>      library parts.
> 
>    - Small number of bugs fixed.  FUSE has been through some stress
>      testing and no problems have turned up yet.
> 
>    - Library interface simplified.  A simple 'hello world' filesystem
>      can now be implemented in less than 100 lines.

Are you multithreaded? Like will big ftp download block all FUSE, all ftp,
only one server, or everything?

>    - Python (by Jeff Epler) and Perl (by Mark Glines) bindings are in
>      the works, and will be released some time in the future (now
>      available through CVS).

Nice!

> Problems still remaining:
> 
>    - Security problems when fuse is used by non-privileged users:
> 
>        o user can intentionally block the page writeback operation,
>          causing a system lockup.  I'm not sure this can be solved in
>          a truly secure way.  Ideas?

How does GRUB solve this?

> Introduction for newbies:
> 
>   FUSE provides a simple interface for userspace programs to export a
>   virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel.  FUSE also aims to provide a
>   secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own
>   filesystem implementations.
> 
>   Fuse is available for the 2.4 (and later) kernel series.
>   Installation is easy and does not need a kernel recompile.

Maybe it could replace sf/coda and fs/intermezzo? Is it powerfull/fast
enough for that?
								Pavel
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