Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268851AbUIBSGn (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:06:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268321AbUIBSFI (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:05:08 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:14255 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268227AbUIBSEq (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:04:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:03:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Christoph Hellwig cc: Alan Cox , Jamie Lokier , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , Hans Reiser , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) In-Reply-To: <20040902175034.GA18861@lst.de> Message-ID: References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040902175034.GA18861@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1095 Lines: 26 On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > http://oss.oracle.com/projects/userfs/ has code that clues gnomevfs onto > a kernel filesystem. The code is horrible, but it shows that it can > be done. I do like the setup where the extended features are done as a "view" on top of some other filesystem, so that you can choose to _either_ access the raw (and supposedly stable, simply by virtue of simplicity) or the "fancy" interface. Without having to reformat the disk to a filesystem you don't trust, or you have other reasons you can't use (disk sharing with other systems, whatever). It doesn't have to be "user", btw, in the sense that a lot of the normal code could be in kernel mode. Same way as Tux handling all the regular static requests entirely in kernel mode, but having the ability for calling down to apache.. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/