> 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, Sure, but that needs reviewer time, tester time and developer time. All of those is limited, and for a piece of code with <100 users and >1kloc it may not be worth it. But if people do it for fun, or for having a simple example code to look at, I have no problem with that :) Miklos -- 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
