[Parted-edge] Libraries for file-systems

[Matt Davis]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:29:29AM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 12:04:21PM +0530, Anant Narayanan wrote:
> > Or, just adopt an existing VFS API; such as the one in use by the Linux
> > kernel or the FUSE system. They've matured over the years and are
> > especially suitable for implementation across a variety of file-systems.
> 
> This raises the question: why do anything in userspace?  If Linux has
> good implementations of most filesystems with the VFS API, why not just
> use that directly?

Good call.  Although I suspect we would still want to exercise this in userspace for portability reasons.  So a direct kernel call might not be the best?

-Matt