Re: [PATCH V10 00/10] famfs: port into fuse

[Gregory Price]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 01:13:36AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 03:43:31PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> 
> > ...however the strongest case (IMO) would be if (having merged famfs) we
> > then merge fuse-iomap after famfs.  Then we extend the existing
> > fuse-iomap-bpf prototype to allow per-mount and per-inode iomap bpf ops.
> > That enables us to analyze thoroughly the performance characteristics of:
> 
> Don't go there.  I think that you two are comining up with two
> interfaces for roughly the same thing is a pretty clear indicator
> that this needs to be fully hashed out as a single interface first,
> and any kind of preliminary merging is just going to create problems.
>

We're not sure how deep this rathole goes, and John's work has been
in the rathole for a few years now.  Hence the desire to hedge.

But it's obvious no decisions will be made before LSFMM - so we can
take a breath and chew on it. Maybe we'll get there in person.

~Gregory