On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 06:42:30PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 08:50:39AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > > So why can't we figure out that easier way? What's wrong with trying to > > figure out if we can do some sort of helper or library set that assists > > supporting and porting older filesystems. If we can do that it will not > > only make the job of an old fs maintainer a lot easier, but it might > > just provide the stepping stones we need to encourage more people climb > > up into the modern VFS world. > > What if we could run our existing filesystem code in userspace? You mean like lklfuse already enables? https://github.com/lkl/linux Looks like the upstream repo is currently based on 6.1, so there's already a mechanism to use relatively recent kernel filesystem implementations as a FUSE filesystem without needed to support a userspace code base.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
