Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261378AbUKOVTz (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:19:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261369AbUKOVSS (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:18:18 -0500 Received: from mail.euroweb.hu ([193.226.220.4]:36075 "HELO mail.euroweb.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261333AbUKOVPS (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:15:18 -0500 To: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:15:03 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1131 Lines: 36 Andrew, Linus! Please consider adding the FUSE filesystem to the mainline kernel. FUSE exports the filesystem functionality to userspace. The communication interface is designed to be simple, efficient, secure and able to support most of the usual filesystem semantics. Reasons why I think inclusion is a good idea: - It is widely used. There are many filesystems available which use FUSE, and there are probably even more in-house applications - It's been around for 3 years, it's very stable and both the kernel interface and the library API have matured - It's non-intrusive, the patch doesn't touch other parts of the kernel Patches for 2.6.10-rc2 and 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 are available from: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/kernel_patches/ More information can be found on the homepage at: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ Comments are welcome. Thanks, Miklos - 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/