On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fuse has two different APIs. For the "high level", path based one, > this is true. The "low level" one is very similar to the one provided > by the VFS. Ah nice, I do not know how I missed that. Thanks for pointing that out. > And I think the VFS is great. Undoubtedly kernel programming has it's > own charm, and I definitely don't want to scare you away from that. > Merging into mainline is a great reward, which must be erned the hard > way. The debate is just part of that ;) > > I also want to dispel any myths surrounding fuse, because those help > nobody. Sure. I'll go on record saying that omfs_fuse was written over a weekend and can not be considered a good example of anything. I already had a proto-libomfs that I had made for omfsck and mkomfs, and wanted to see how easy it would be to wire that stuff up into a FUSE fs. Pretty easily, it turned out. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- 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
