From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261381AbVALUaT (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:30:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261430AbVALUaI (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:30:08 -0500 Received: from adsl-298.mirage.euroweb.hu ([193.226.239.42]:17284 "EHLO dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261381AbVALU3G (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:29:06 -0500 To: akpm@osdl.org CC: kinema@gmail.com, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org In-reply-to: <20050112110109.6a21fae5.akpm@osdl.org> (message from Andrew Morton on Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:01:09 -0800) Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] Merging? References: <20050112110109.6a21fae5.akpm@osdl.org> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:19:13 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Well, there doesn't seem to be a great rush to include FUSE in the > > kernel. Maybe they just don't realize what they are missing out on ;) > > heh. What userspace filesystems have thus-far been developed, and what are > people using them for? Sshfs (idea shamelessly stolen from the LUFS project). If you can ssh to some host you can also mount it as a normal user like this: mkdir /tmp/kempelen sshfs mszeredi@kempelen: /tmp/kempelen It pretty much trumps all other network filesystems wrt ease of server setup, it's secure, efficient, all you need in a network filesystem :) (available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse; needs fuse-2.2-pre3 and libglib-2.0) Miklos