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Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O

From Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O
Date 2016-01-14 17:00 +0100
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On Jan 14 2016, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 03:53:10PM -0800, Nikhilesh Reddy wrote:
>> Add support for filesystem stacked read/write of files
>> when enabled through a userspace init option of FUSE_STACKED_IO.
>> 
>> When FUSE_STACKED_IO is enabled all the reads and writes
>> to the fuse mount point go directly to the native filesystem
>> rather than through the fuse daemon. All requests that aren't
>> read/write still go thought the userspace code.
>
> Please write your stacked features as kernel drivers.

Could you explain in more detail? I think I don't understand either the
why, the how, or what you mean with driver in this context (not sure
which one it is). 


(I'm not the original submitter but interested in this)


Best,
-Nikolaus

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[PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@codeaurora.org> - 2016-01-14 01:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-01-14 06:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@codeaurora.org> - 2016-01-14 20:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-01-14 20:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-01-14 09:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> - 2016-01-14 17:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] fuse: Add support for fuse stacked I/O Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-01-15 10:30 +0100

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