Re: FUSE merging?

Miklos Szeredi
2005-07-01T14:32:31Z

> > What would people say if ext3 was always mounted locally through NFS,
> > because the kernel would only provide the NFS filesystem client.
>
> Probably the same thing they would say if ext3 was a user-space
> application that always needed to be mounted via FUSE ;)

Yes, and rightly.

One of the misunderstandings about userspace filesystems (Linus falls
into this) is to compare it with microkernels.

FUSE (and userspace filesystems in general) are NOT meant to replace
in kernel filesystems or the VFS. They are an addition with which
different kinds of filesystems can be implemented much better than
they could be in kernel.

Miklos