From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] user-level file systems for Linux
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 19:20:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402181919190.27316-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2188d527e30fa4f76b933b52ede07d9e@plan9.bell-labs.com>
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Russ Cox wrote:
> Actually there have been a handful of projects doing similar things over
> the past few years, and they've all died out. I'm optimistic about FUSE
> because it's almost an exact translation of the VFS layer, meaning that
> it's simple and as expressive as possible.
my biggest problem when I did v9fs in 1996/7 was convincing anyone in
linux-land that user-level mounts were a good idea. I got the weirdest
arguments against both user-level mounts and private name spaces. It seems
like they've finally started to get it.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-19 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-19 1:57 Russ Cox
2004-02-19 2:19 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-19 2:20 ` ron minnich [this message]
2004-02-19 2:35 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-19 4:45 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-02-19 4:58 ` ron minnich
2004-02-19 9:20 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-19 14:46 ` ron minnich
2004-02-19 14:50 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-19 14:57 ` Stephen Wynne
2004-02-19 3:10 YAMANASHI Takeshi
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