Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> | I think it would be nice to add in a kernel feature to allow the kernel
> | to interface with userspace programs to provide fs support for certain
> | filesystems. There are three kinds of filesystems that (in my opinion)
> | this would be really nice for.
>
> wouldn't that simply be a kernel module?
No. It wouldn't. Kernel modules are rather harder to write and deal with.
Support for them must be compiled into the kernel. If I'm not mistaken (and I
don't know much about modules), it could be somewhat difficult to implement a
generic compressed filesystem (e.g. supports ext2, msdos, and anything else).
But most importantly userspace things are easier for users to deal with. I don't
want to have to learn the modules interface.
>
>
> | 1) Uncommon FS's that are not common enough to deserve kernel support
>
> see above. HFS does this, etc.
>
> | 2) compressed or encrypted filesystems
>
> there are encrypted file systems that occur in user space (CFS comes to mind)
> already. again -- kernel module if you want. (sext2fs?)
>
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> coded it."
> (Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting)
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