system and desktop VFS merged

[John Davidorff Pell]

I agree completely. You're spot-on, but I get the feeling that  
certain people on this list will take your comments as heresy...

JP


On 27 Mar 2005, at 14:20, Diego Calleja wrote:

> El Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:32:59 +0300 (EEST),
> rosen georgiev <dewie at abv.bg> escribió:
>
>> i didn't say that right, here is anothe try:
>> D-VFS will be crossplatfrom, but the connectivity with non-desktop  
>> apps
>> will be available only on Linux throught FUSE-DVFS or something  
>> similar.
>
> Why is freedesktop trying to do something that doesn't really  
> belongs to the desktop
> folks, except in the GUIs needed to configure/worke with it? Why  
> should freedesktop waste
> extra time trying to implement features that really belong to the  
> OS layer (kernel/libc/etc) just
> because not all operative systems support userspace filesystems? Is  
> not that happening
> already with some features, ie: will freedesktop define a standard  
> for creating a configurate
> tool to configure the kernel just because some OS don't supports  
> one or the available
> ones aren't well done?
>
> FUSE seems to be a step ahead in the idea of "userspace  
> filesystems", and it's the Right
> Thing (tm) - even if some people argues about posix not being  
> enought, etc - to do as has
> been proven with operative systems like plan9...
>
> The idea of /vfs/protocol is just against the idea of userspace  
> filesystems. I mean, the
> whole purpose of a userspace filesystem should be being  
> *completely* transparent
> If you're going to do /vfs/protocol, what's the point in using the  
> filesystem namespace for
> it, except for tyding it? What would be next, require the path to  
> be in valid utf-8?
>
> The main issue with FUSE seems to be that it isn't "cross  
> platform". This is easily
> solvable: if a OS don't supports userspace filesystems, they won't  
> have userspace
> filesystems...what else can you do? (and anyway, is one of the  
> design goals of
> dragonflybsd: people IS getting there...) Is not just about getting  
> the userspace
> filesystem path name in bash, creating a D-VFS standard would  
> require that EVERY
> app would implement it (from apache to libc) to be really coherent.  
> Filesystem
> namespace is something that affects all apps, I don't really see  
> why it should be
> specified by desktop people...
>
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