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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:57:47 -0600
From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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csant wrote:

> But you'd have the 9p module, obviously. It's such a nonsene that the
> linux kernel doesn't allow mounting for non-privileged users
> out-of-the-box, IMO. I like filesystems in userspace.


it's an old argument which I have had had with multiple people multiple
times since 1998, and lost every time :-)

It's always "but why do you want that" and "you don't want that" or "we
can already to that" or "we tried that, it didn't work" and back to "but
why do you want that".

Charles nailed it. The Land That Time Forgot.

ron