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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
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On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 12:37 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> There's one thing which makes fuse a slightly better candidate for
> applications where the number of users is low: stability.  Unless you
> or your users test the hell out of your filesystem, there always a
> chance that some bugs will remain.  These rarely bring down the whole
> system, but it usually requires a reboot to let you continue using the
> Oopsing fs.

I think it's a slippery slope from that to rewriting Linux as a
microkernel.

Simple block filesystems like this belong in the kernel.

-- 
dwmw2