Re: FUSE merging? (why I chose FUSE over v9fs)

[Joshua J. Berry]

On Friday 02 September 2005 15:34, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Andrew!
> >
> > Do you plan to send FUSE to Linus for 2.6.14?
...
> I agree that lots of people would like the functionality.  I regret that
> although it appears that v9fs could provide it, there seems to be no
> interest in working on that.

I evaluated both v9fs and FUSE for my project (I don't want to link to it 
until it does something actually useful ;) ) ... and it seemed that v9fs 
just wasn't UNIXy enough for my purposes -- the Plan9 way and the UNIX way 
were different enough to make me nervous.  I don't remember the specific 
details (this was a few months ago), but I do remember that v9fs had no 
extended attribute support, which was a showstopper for me.  Also, I 
couldn't find any userspace library for writing 9P servers.

Others may have reached similar conclusions.  Or maybe FUSE is just 
better-marketed. ;)

Either way, I am a happy FUSE user.  I think it offers things v9fs doesn't, 
and I'd like to see it in mainline. :)

-- Josh

-- 
Joshua J. Berry

"I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere."
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