Matthew Kirkwood writes:
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> [ cdaudiofs in kernel ]
>
> > > > 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 ?
> >
> > True. It's not clear to me where the distinction is drawn. Why does FS
> > A get into the kernel, and FS B is pushed to user-space?
>
> Isn't this what makes Linux good? We don't have to have absolute,
> rock-solid, hard-and-fast rules about what goes where, or how it is
> done.
We don't really have guidelines either, or discussion papers giving at
least halfway rational reasons. What we have now is agitation and
flaming and a lot of hysteria.
> - though I wish devfs was all userspace :-)
Impossible to get some of the neat functionality without a kernel
interface.
Regards,
Richard....
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