Subject: Re: file as a directory
From: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
To: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Cc: Amit Gud <amitgud1@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       reiserfs-list@namesys.com
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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:34:02 -0700
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On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 15:37 +0100, Martin Waitz wrote:
> hoi :)
>=20
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:24:36PM +0530, Amit Gud wrote:
> >  A straight forward question. Wouldn't adding a "file as a directory"
> > mechanism more logical in VFS itself, rather than having each fs (like
> > reiser4) to implement it seperately?
>=20
> wouldn't it be better if such things would be implemented in a library?
> use gnome-vfs, or try to get a vfs layer into libc.
> That way you can even support different and old kernels and all
> filesystems.
>=20
> The kernel already provides all methods that are neccessary to do that.
> So there is no need to implement it in the kernel.

There are already several things in filesystems that don't strictly
belong inside the kernel.  A filesystem could be implemented quite well
as a user-space daemon that sat on top of the block device and
communicated via sockets or shared memory just like an X server.

So, the argument that because it could be implemented in userspace that
it should be implemented in userspace is not automatically true.
--=20
Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>

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