Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

[Miklos Szeredi]

> On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:58 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > Oh, you mean without having to run the whole kernel around the
> > filesystem?  Well, that's a bit more tricky: filesystems use not just
> > the VFS API, but the block, VM, SLAB, etc. APIs as well.  Porting all
> > of these to userspace and keeping them in sync with the kernel changes
> > doesn't sound much fun.
> 
> That would be UML :)
> 
> But seriously -- wouldn't our time be better spent on improving error
> handling in the kernel,

Sure, but that needs reviewer time, tester time and developer time.
All of those is limited, and for a piece of code with <100 users and
>1kloc it may not be worth it.

But if people do it for fun, or for having a simple example code to
look at, I have no problem with that :)

Miklos
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