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Message-ID: <20080413080130.GA9622@infradead.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:01:30 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:55:44PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > it's a dead filesystem that a very few people still have a reason to
> > use. If FUSE is where this should live, then I'll just simply focus my
> > time on that instead (since I already have it in FUSE).
>
> Yes, pursuing the FUSE implementation sounds a better approach - it avoids
> burdening the kernel with a filesysstem which few will be interested in and
> is more practical for use by those who _are_ interested in it.
No way. For a normal foreign block filesystem a proper kernel
implementation is much better. And this one is particularly
well-written. Lately I really start wondering why we keep adding crap
all over the core, but if we have a modular new filesystem that's quite
nice people start complaining.
>
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