site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Filipe Cabecinhas On 14 May, 2007, at 07:55, Dan Shoop wrote: -dhan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Shoop AIM: iWiring Systems & Networks Architect http://www.iwiring.net/ shoop@iwiring.net http://www.ustsvs.com/ pgp key fingerprint: FAC0 9434 B5A5 24A8 D0AF 12B1 7840 3BE7 3736 DE0B A: Yes. | Q: Are you sure? | | A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. | | | Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... 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. 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. -- This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com