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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 11:47:52 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Miklos Szeredi <Miklos.Szeredi@eth.ericsson.se>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace 0.95
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Hi!

> > Are you multithreaded? Like will big ftp download block all FUSE, all ftp,
> > only one server, or everything?
> 
> FUSE and AVFS are both multithreaded.  Specifically ftp is quite well
> threaded, and a big download will not block any operation, even on the
> same server. 

Good!

> > >        o user can intentionally block the page writeback operation,
> > >          causing a system lockup.  I'm not sure this can be solved in
> > >          a truly secure way.  Ideas?
> > 
> > How does GRUB solve this?
> 
> What GRUB? 

Sorry, I meant HURD. It has "untrusted" filesystems in userland, too.
									Pavel
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