Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

Pavel Machek
2004-11-17T20:48:37Z

Hi!

> > Coda should do the job, too... What are advantages of FUSE over Coda?
>
> No, it couldn't do the job half as well. You know, I did use Coda,
> until I had enough of it. Now look at how many userspace filesystems
> were written based on CODA and how many on FUSE.

Well, there are filesystems based on NFS, which just plain do not
work... So #filesystems is not quite good argument.

> Coda is very different. You can only read/write whole files in Coda.
> It's got a different attribute invalidation modell, a different access
> checking modell. Generally it's much less flexible, which is OK since

I know I've asked before... but how is the "fuse-userspace-part
swapped out and memory full of dirty data on fuse" deadlock solved?

Coda has at least the advantage that coda-userspace-part does not need
to be page-locked.
Pavel
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