Re: reiser4 plugins

Diego Calleja
2005-06-30T19:59:06Z

El Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:37:38 +0300,
mjt@nysv.org (Markus Törnqvist) escribió:

> If I want to access metadata with bash, do I patch bash to support
> both Gnome's and KDE's solutions? Was there one of XFCE too?
> And FooBarXyzzyWM that'll want to do it's own VFS next year?

The freedesktop people is already designing a common userspace VFS,
take a look at http://freedesktop.org/Software/dvfs . At least it looks like
there'll be a common standard, even if the standard is crappy.

Apparently one of the main reasons for DVFS to exist is "POSIX is not
enought for us".

This approach is broken by design, having a second-class VFS separated
from the main VFS (what libc functions see, etc) is wrong, IMO.

The Mockup project (they try to bring a BeOS-like API to linux, I think) is
something similar to DVFS but using FUSE.
Take a look at http://wiki.mockup.org
(currently down, google cache at
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:OnvclDCpwOwJ:wiki.mockup.org/UserSpaceVFS+mockup+wiki+VFS&hl=es&lr=&client=firefox&strip=1 )