Re: fuse is cool and robust

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sun Mar 20 2005 - 16:57:57 EST


>I do understand that a filesystem is a particularly poor API for many
>things, and I'm not in favour of 'sqlfs' or 'ftpfs', but fuse IS a great
>enabler. 'encfs' would be hard to do from kernel space (or at least, a lot
>harder). http://arg0.net/users/vgough/encfs.html

encfs being hard from kernel space? I've seen a whole cryptoloop in the
kernel. Can't be "hard". At least unpracticable.


Jan Engelhardt
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