>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> > If its in kernel someone did it wrong. You can do it just as well
>> using > userspace and the coda vfs hooks.
>>
>> Yeah , but the same argument applies to FAT, NFS , UFS and all the
>> others too , no ?
Alan> Its primarily a performance/complexity issue. In many cases
Alan> (especially writeable fs's you can cache) kernel side code is a
Alan> huge help.
Alan> For an FS we don't use except for conversion then yes. I could
Alan> buy the argument that AFFS should perhaps be done this way yes
A lot of m68k users actually use AFFS to transfer data back and forth
the same way PC users tend to use FAT.
Jes
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