From: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
To: Adam Sampson <azz@us-lot.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Encrypted Filesystem
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:42:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040127014254.GA1379@hexapodia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y2ar7xmkyqe.fsf@cartman.at.fivegeeks.net>
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:43:21AM +0000, Adam Sampson wrote:
> Michael A Halcrow <mahalcro@us.ibm.com> writes:
> > - Userland filesystem-based (EncFS+FUSE, CryptoFS+LUFS)
>
> Going off on a tangent...
>
> There are all sorts of potentially-interesting things that could be
> done if Linux had a userspace filesystem mechanism included in the
> standard kernel -- as well as encryption, there's also network
> filesystems, various sorts of specialised caching (such as Zero
> Install), automounter-like systems, prototyping and so on.
>
> Is there a technical reason that none of the userspace filesystem
> layers have been included in the stock kernel, or is it just that
> nobody's submitted any of them for inclusion yet?
There are a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle problems in this space.
For example, I really liked the paging example given in section 3.1 of
[Mazi2001].
[Mazi2001] "A toolkit for user-level file systems", David Mazieres,
Proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Technical Conference
available at http://www.fs.net/sfswww/pubs.html
-andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-27 1:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 17:46 Encrypted Filesystem Michael A Halcrow
2004-01-26 19:06 ` Mark Borgerding
2004-01-26 21:04 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-01-30 17:01 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-27 0:06 ` jw schultz
2004-01-27 0:43 ` Adam Sampson
2004-01-27 1:42 ` Andy Isaacson [this message]
2004-01-27 22:01 ` Jan Harkes
2004-01-27 22:16 ` Jean-Luc Cooke
2004-01-28 13:50 ` Userspace filesystems (WAS: Encrypted Filesystem) Miklos Szeredi
2004-01-30 17:06 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-02 9:42 ` Miklos Szeredi
2004-02-02 15:19 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-02 15:36 ` Nikita Danilov
[not found] <16405.24299.945548.174085@laputa.namesys.com>
2004-01-26 19:02 ` Encrypted Filesystem Hans Reiser
2004-01-27 18:56 ` Edward Shishkin
2004-01-27 21:25 ` Michael Halcrow
2004-01-27 21:51 ` Hans Reiser
[not found] <OFA97B290B.67DE842E-ON87256E27.0061728C-86256E27.0061BB0E@us.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-01-27 16:13 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-27 18:17 ` Jari Ruusu
2004-01-27 18:44 ` Andi Kleen
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