Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261227AbVCTQQC (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:16:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261232AbVCTQQC (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:16:02 -0500 Received: from outpost.ds9a.nl ([213.244.168.210]:30431 "EHLO outpost.ds9a.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261227AbVCTQPz (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:15:55 -0500 Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:15:30 +0100 From: bert hubert To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: fuse is cool and robust Message-ID: <20050320161529.GA26365@outpost.ds9a.nl> Mail-Followup-To: bert hubert , Miklos Szeredi , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1666 Lines: 40 Miklos, Andrew, I'm wondering what the status of Fuse is wrt to 2.6.12 or 2.6.13, especially since the code is (now) perfectly orthogonal. I just spent a short amount of time setting up and trying to break fusefs and some of the filesystems based on it, and I did not succeed (in breaking it). So far all userspace filesystem things have been brittle for me, often causing kernel panics or an otherwise hosed system. FUSE worked out of the box and furthermore survived outright killing of the daemon, sending it SIGSTOP, doing demanding operations on a fusefs system, and stracing of the daemon. I use it to host a subversion repository on currently, using fsfs. To boot, it is immediately useful as well. I've seen a bit of the deliberations on merging Fuse or not, and I'm not skilled enough to say anything about the kernel side of things, but from my userland perspective, I'd like to see this merged. Especially since I'm a C++-head, which connects very well to the userspace part of fuse. I do understand that a filesystem is a particularly poor API for many things, and I'm not in favour of 'sqlfs' or 'ftpfs', but fuse IS a great enabler. 'encfs' would be hard to do from kernel space (or at least, a lot harder). http://arg0.net/users/vgough/encfs.html Thanks. -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services - 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/