[Parted-edge] Libraries for file-systems

[Andrew Clausen]

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?

This isn't as crazy as it seems!  Convertfs does exactly this.  See
	http://members.optusnet.com.au/clausen/ideas/convertfs.txt
for an explanation.

Nowadays, this could be implemented with userspace linux.

Cheers,
Andrew