From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757635AbYDROoY (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:44:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757238AbYDROoA (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:44:00 -0400 Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.176]:46653 "EHLO el-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757178AbYDROn7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:43:59 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=fMSxZadSmbNkxGy66o9i6MzFkXALjyEpTyY7p96OvCNouuHjLo4VoKU0y6t2TFdWT2gL6zQXk2Uv4FJXshGGpSlNmCsfXwrJJ6fG5kMDSJAaMXq5uW0i+t1HfnnBt5zDSRx1h71/rIqT4IRVq32orxwsDWUlgu/BZF38KptqdEw= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:43:57 -0400 From: "Bob Copeland" To: "Miklos Szeredi" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Cc: szaka@ntfs-3g.org, hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1208041121-26787-1-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com> <20080412205544.5e12a7d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413080130.GA9622@infradead.org> <20080413012001.8d7967f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413082815.GA20108@infradead.org> <20080414004521.GA30489@hash.localnet> X-Google-Sender-Auth: ebafda807dfbb5b9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Fuse has two different APIs. For the "high level", path based one, > this is true. The "low level" one is very similar to the one provided > by the VFS. Ah nice, I do not know how I missed that. Thanks for pointing that out. > And I think the VFS is great. Undoubtedly kernel programming has it's > own charm, and I definitely don't want to scare you away from that. > Merging into mainline is a great reward, which must be erned the hard > way. The debate is just part of that ;) > > I also want to dispel any myths surrounding fuse, because those help > nobody. Sure. I'll go on record saying that omfs_fuse was written over a weekend and can not be considered a good example of anything. I already had a proto-libomfs that I had made for omfsck and mkomfs, and wanted to see how easy it would be to wire that stuff up into a FUSE fs. Pretty easily, it turned out. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com