Re: FUSE merging?

Frank van Maarseveen
2005-07-01T13:51:34Z

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:53:54PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 04:29 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Sorry, but I'm not buying it. I still don't see a solid reason why all
> > this could not be done with nfs/v9fs, some kernel tweaks and the rest in
> > userspace. It would take some effort, but that effort would end up
> > strengthening existing kernel capabilities rather than adding brand new
> > things, which is good.
>
> Also can the NFS approach provide me with different content depending on
> the uid of the accessing process? With FUSE that is easy as pie. Even
> easier than that actually...

unfsd can that I believe. However, FUSE and user space NFSd are complementary.
For every NFS solution one still needs to do the mounting as root. FUSE
addresses the client side: it can implement a user space NFS client.

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Frank