Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261452AbVARWYQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:24:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261453AbVARWYQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:24:16 -0500 Received: from lea.cs.unibo.it ([130.136.1.101]:15596 "EHLO lea.cs.unibo.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261452AbVARWX5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:23:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:23:51 +0100 From: Luca Ferroni To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] Merging? Message-Id: <20050118232351.3770b001.fferroni@cs.unibo.it> In-Reply-To: <20050112110109.6a21fae5.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050112110109.6a21fae5.akpm@osdl.org> Organization: Ferrlabs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1431 Lines: 39 Il Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:01:09 -0800, Andrew Morton ha scritto: > Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > Well, there doesn't seem to be a great rush to include FUSE in the > > kernel. Maybe they just don't realize what they are missing out on ;) > > heh. What userspace filesystems have thus-far been developed, and what are > people using them for? For my master laurea thesis I developed PackageFS that aims to transparently manage packages in several distros. There are also many other facilities: - View a directory-based tree of packages (with the files that each package owns) which can be nested by category, or by priority In the future - you will be able to add users to "packages" group to make them able to manage packages - you can mount the file system on a cluster to transparently manage several hosts You can find my thesis at http://packagefs.sourceforge.net I think FUSE is a very good idea (as good as the actual implementation is), IMHO it should be inserted in the mainline kernel. Thanks to Miklos and other developers. Luca -- Non ci toglieranno mai....la LIBERTA'!!! Luca Ferroni ICQ #317977679 www.cs.unibo.it/~fferroni/ - 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/