Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161086AbVIBWer (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:34:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161088AbVIBWer (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:34:47 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:48065 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161086AbVIBWeq (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:34:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 15:34:40 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: FUSE merging? Message-Id: <20050902153440.309d41a5.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-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: 1621 Lines: 44 Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Hi Andrew! > > Do you plan to send FUSE to Linus for 2.6.14? Haven't thought about it all much. Have spent most of my time in the last month admiring the contents of kernel bugzilla, and the ongoing attempts to increase them. > I know you have some doubts about usefulness, etc. Here are a couple > of facts, that I hope show that Linux should benefit from having FUSE: > > - total number of downloads from SF: ~25000 > > - number of downloads of last release (during 3 months): ~7000 > > - number of distros carrying official packages: 2 (debian, gentoo) > > - number of publicly available filesystems known: 27 > > - of which at least 2 are carried by debian (and maybe others) > > - number of language bindings: 7 (native: C, java, python, perl, C#, sh, TCL) > > - biggest known commercial user: ~110TB exported, total bandwidth: 1.5TB/s > > - mailing list traffic 100-200 messages/month > > - have been in -mm since 2005 january > I agree that lots of people would like the functionality. I regret that although it appears that v9fs could provide it, there seems to be no interest in working on that. The main sticking point with FUSE remains the permission tricks around fuse_allow_task(). AFAIK it remains the case that nobody has come up with any better idea, so I'm inclined to merge the thing. - 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/