I've been looking at implementing msdos filesystem support in the GNOME
VFS (virtual filesystem) layer. This way users could be given read and
write access to the device (eg: /dev/fd0) and the filesystem stuff
would happen at the library level. This wouldn't be as fast (due to the
lack of caching) and would only be available to GNOME programs, but I
think its a solution to the problem.
Despite my loyalty to GNOME (as a part of the GNU Project), on
technical grounds I have to disagree. File access needs to be
available to all the programs on the system, and the only natural way
to do that is through the kernel and the C library. Doing this in
GNOME will produce a feature that half-works, which means it will
appear to the users as an unreliable feature.
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