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On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:50:59PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Speaking of which, dumb question: what does FUSE offer over simply using
> NFS protocol to talk to the userspace filesystem driver?

NFS currently does not currently engender warm feelings wrt ease of
programming and quality in general - especially under Linux sadly enough.

It is also a narrow window through which to speak to the rich set of
options, flags, attributes and features the Linux kernel offers.

I think Solaris used to implement bind mounts through loopback NFS, but that
went out of fashion as well.

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