Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261200AbVALObQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:31:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261198AbVALObQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:31:16 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.207]:62619 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261200AbVALObM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:31:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pT+AqJUVGj7mci8urfeNrHQ6bocgPX6zj0P0mxY56bnAQBL0XS/o54vzsbq9z/K++pEVZvSwl19l97mAN5FddCWbfRXDLGS/HtjBfV3xn16NEZmCC44p9jRY+f9U5ue+RyDQK0aKh43YoRwsLYp/YugwqmEeN2n2G8H4AyoCHgg= Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:31:31 +0100 From: Diego Calleja To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: kinema@gmail.com, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] Merging? Message-Id: <20050112153131.1f778264.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1376 Lines: 32 El Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:49:35 +0100 Miklos Szeredi escribi?: > So if any of you would like to support this motion, you can mail the > linux-kernel list and maybe Linus and Andrew, to generate a little > discussion on why (or why not) inclusion is a good idea. Personally I think it's cool for "desktops" and other reasons because: -It could replace gnome-vfs AND kioslaves by a more generic solution that works for all environments -You could implement several "not-performance-critical" filesystems (fat, isofs) with FUSE to avoid possible security issues. Give that nowadays usb sticks and cd/dvds are so common it'd be possible to modify a filesystem on purpose to crash the kernel if a bug were found in those filesytems. With FUSE that posibility decreases. -Since you can use other programming languages, I suposse it'd be easier for people to write support for weird filesystems. -Better for kernel (less code to maintain given a big number of filesystems) and less pressure for VFS developers when making big changes to the VFS. -Possibility to write stupid filesystems like "gmailfs". - 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/