Re: [request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:31:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Do you have any objections to merging FUSE in mainline kernel?
> 
> I was planning on sending FUSE into Linus in a week or two.  That and
> cpusets are the notable features which are 2.6.12 candidates.
> 
> - crashdump seems permanently not-quite-ready
> 
> - perfctr works fine, but is rather deadlocked because it is
>   similar-to-but-different-from ia64's perfmon, and might not be suitable
>   for ppc64 (although things have gone quiet on the latter front).

Not to mention that the ABI is still changing with each release...

> - nfsacl should be OK for 2.6.12 if Trond is OK with it.
> 
> - cachefs is a bit stuck because it's a ton of complex code and afs is
>   the only user of it.  Wiring it up to NFS would help.
> 
> - dm multipath is OK for 2.6.12
> 
> - reiser4 is less clear.  Once all the review comments have been addressed
>   and we start seeing a bit of vendor pull for it, maybe.

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