Re: Fuse
Re: Fuse
- Subject: Re: Fuse
- From: Dan Shoop <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:56:45 -0400
At 9:51 AM +0100 5/14/07, Filipe Cabecinhas wrote:
No... Including MacFUSE in Darwin would allow everyone to distribute
their filesystems without worrying about having the client install
MacFUSE... MacFUSE isn't a filesystem. It's an API to allow people
to implement userspace filesystems.
Filipe Cabecinhas
On 14 May, 2007, at 07:55, Dan Shoop wrote:
Since the goal of FUSE is to be a user space filesystem, as
evidenced in it's name, wouldn't including it as a systems
filesystem be rather conflicting?
It quite arguably is a filesystem. It's just not *a* filesystem but a
hook for arbitrary filesystems.
Moreover since it affects the stability of the OS, and isn't anywhere
ready for prime time nor is it likely to ever be ready for
production, again in part b/c by nature it's a userspace "thingie",
this would still be anathema.
I mean it's a nice thought, but given that it's supposed to be
userspace, that the kernel and core OS are quite clearly kernel- and
system-space, that it's not prime time ready, currently and probably
always unstable by nature, and always going to be more appropriately
implemented at a user level that it doesn't belong as part of the
systems. If it did would it not then be MacSUSE? And my, oh my,
wouldn't that they get confusing with something else by that name ;)
Don't get me wrong, MacFUSE is great, but it's experimental at best,
at least currently.
--
-dhan
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