FUSE - filesystem in userspace

[Farkas Levente]

Matthias Saou wrote:
> Warren Togami wrote :
> 
> 
>>Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all, I've been sent here from the fedora-general mailing list. I
> 
> just
> 
>>>would like to ask people who can to consider fuse (filesystem in
> 
> userspace)
> 
>>>and sshfs for inclusion into fedora. They both are available at
>>>
>>>http://fuse.sourceforge.net
>>
>>My understanding of this is that this would require patching the FC 
>>kernel, which is something Extras cannot do.  Is this incorrect?
>>
>>If that is the case, then you must convince upstream kernel.org to merge 
>>FUSE into the standard kernel.  Then adding userspace packages like 
>>sshfs would be fairly easy to do.
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> 
> The 3rd line of the website reads :
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> "Simple installation (no need to patch or recompile the kernel)"
> 
> It does require a kernel module, though, so it's a similar situation to AFS
> and many others...

and Linus opinion is also intersting:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110080420816859&w=2

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