Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261291AbVCTV4S (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:56:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261294AbVCTV4S (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:56:18 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:55511 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261291AbVCTV4O (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:56:14 -0500 Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:55:15 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: bert hubert cc: Miklos Szeredi , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: fuse is cool and robust In-Reply-To: <20050320161529.GA26365@outpost.ds9a.nl> Message-ID: References: <20050320161529.GA26365@outpost.ds9a.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 16 >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 encfs being hard from kernel space? I've seen a whole cryptoloop in the kernel. Can't be "hard". At least unpracticable. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/