From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756618AbYDMI22 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:28:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753525AbYDMI2T (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:28:19 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:58939 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751768AbYDMI2S (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:28:18 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:28:15 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Bob Copeland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Message-ID: <20080413082815.GA20108@infradead.org> References: <1208041121-26787-1-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com> <20080412170304.54f139e2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413033344.GA27494@hash.localnet> <20080412205544.5e12a7d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413080130.GA9622@infradead.org> <20080413012001.8d7967f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080413012001.8d7967f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I'm not complaining about anything. Who has? > > As the filesystem is for occasional, non-performance-sensitive use > by a very small number of people, doing it via FUSE sounds like an > all-round more practical approach. This has nothing to do with quality of > implementation at all. It's a stupid idea. Moving a simple block based filesystem means it's more complicated, less efficient because of the additional context switches and harder to use because you need additional userspace packages and need to setup fuse. We made writing block based filesystems trivial in the kernel to grow more support for filesystems like this one.