Re: FUSE merging?

Miklos Szeredi
2005-07-01T07:08:01Z

> >
> > > - aren't we going to remove the nfs semi-server feature?
> >
> > I leave the decision to you ;) It's a separate independent patch
> > already (fuse-nfs-export.patch).
>
> Let's leave it out - that'll stimulate some activity in the
> userspace-nfs-server-for-FUSE area.
>
> Speaking of which, dumb question: what does FUSE offer over simply using
> NFS protocol to talk to the userspace filesystem driver?

Oh lots:

- no deadlocks (NFS mounted from localhost is riddled with them)

- efficient protocol, optimized for less context switches

- dcache invalidation policy

- probably more, but I can't remember

Miklos