On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:33:44 -0400 Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 05:03:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Adding a new FS to Linux is a pretty major thing. > > > > - A key question (which you don't seem to have addressed at all!) is: why > > is this a useful addition to Linux? What are the filesystem's strengths? > > What is its application? How does it improves Linux and by how much? > > Honestly, I'm not sure if this FS is mainline material or not. OIC. > If it is, > it is in the sense that the Amiga FS, befs, and so forth are useful: > 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
