Re: FUSE merging?

[Miklos Szeredi]

> >
> >  > - aren't we going to remove the nfs semi-server feature?
> > 
> >  I leave the decision to you ;)  It's a separate independent patch
> >  already (fuse-nfs-export.patch).
> 
> Let's leave it out - that'll stimulate some activity in the
> userspace-nfs-server-for-FUSE area.
> 
> Speaking of which, dumb question: what does FUSE offer over simply using
> NFS protocol to talk to the userspace filesystem driver?

Oh lots:

  - no deadlocks (NFS mounted from localhost is riddled with them)

  - efficient protocol, optimized for less context switches

  - dcache invalidation policy
  
  - probably more, but I can't remember

Miklos
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