Re: [ANNOUNCE] FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace 0.95

Miklos Szeredi
2002-01-21T10:20:32Z

Hi Pavel!

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

FUSE and AVFS are both multithreaded. Specifically ftp is quite well
threaded, and a big download will not block any operation, even on the
same server.

> > 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?

What GRUB?

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

No, at the moment there are a few features missing in FUSE, that CODA
needs (access caching, reading directly from files, file
reintegration). But it is perfectly possible to add these features to
FUSE if somebody wants them.

Actually having real disk files as a backing store for virtual files
could be the solution to the page writeback problem. The only
question is how to manage this in an efficient way.

Miklos