A common VFS and a Common conf-system (Was: namespacing)

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:45:59 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> Unfortunately, it's Linux only, and has an incredibly brain-dead design
> where you have to utilize "round-trips" through the kernel for something
> that essentially happens entirely in user-space, and forces a superbly
> poor API (POSIX) onto all its file systems, including those where POSIX
> makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Zen question: If a filesystem can't support POSIX, does that mean it's
not really a filesystem at all?