On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:58 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Oh, you mean without having to run the whole kernel around the > filesystem? Well, that's a bit more tricky: filesystems use not just > the VFS API, but the block, VM, SLAB, etc. APIs as well. Porting all > of these to userspace and keeping them in sync with the kernel changes > doesn't sound much fun. That would be UML :) But seriously -- wouldn't our time be better spent on improving error handling in the kernel, rather than taking advantage of the benefits of microkernel design... but only for those parts which don't matter? -- dwmw2 -- 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
