Hi!
> > > someone saying we should have one/it's a WIP/it's out there. What's
> > > the story? Assuming there is such a beast out there, is there a reason
> > > it's not in the 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 ?
Yes. I'd like UFS going userspace. Anyone is going to submit nice
midnight module? FAT module for midnight would be also nice, as it
would allow accessing floppies from userspace; and broken floppy would
no longer crash your machine. (NFS is used too commonly, and _is_
performance critical).
Pavel
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