Re: Variant symlink filesystem

From	Cole <cole@opteqint.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Variant symlink filesystem
Date	2016-03-11 21:20 +0100
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On 11 March 2016 at 22:04, Richard Weinberger
<richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Cole <cole@opteqint.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have written a Variant Symlink Filesystem for linux, currently
>> implemented as a kernel module:
>> https://github.com/onslauth/varsymfs
>> The code was written for the 3.x kernel.
>>
>> I would like to try to get this included into the linux kernel, and am
>> willing to hand over all copyright and change the license as needed.
>> As such, I would like to know what I can do to try to make this
>> happen.
>>
>> If the code quality or standards are not up to par with those of the
>> linux kernel, or code needs to change due to newer changes introduced
>> into the kernel, please let me know and I will endeavour to make the
>> necessary changes.
>>
>> Please can you also cc me in any replies, as I am not currently
>> subscribed to the list.
>
> Why does this need to be a kernel filesystem and not a filesystem in
> userspace (FUSE)?
> Especially as you are dealing with environment variables which are
> owned and controlled
> by userspace.

The original implementation was in fuse, to prove the concept. However,
because we are compiling, as well as running programs and reading/writing
files inside of this path, the performance loss is too great. Therefore we
moved to this solution.

Regards
/Cole

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Variant symlink filesystem Cole <cole@opteqint.net> - 2016-03-11 17:30 +0100
  Re: Variant symlink filesystem "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 17:50 +0100
  Re: Variant symlink filesystem Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 21:10 +0100
    Re: Variant symlink filesystem Cole <cole@opteqint.net> - 2016-03-11 21:20 +0100
      Re: Variant symlink filesystem Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2016-03-11 21:20 +0100
        Re: Variant symlink filesystem Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2016-03-11 21:30 +0100
          Re: Variant symlink filesystem "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 21:40 +0100
            Re: Variant symlink filesystem Cole <cole@opteqint.net> - 2016-03-11 22:00 +0100
              Re: Variant symlink filesystem Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-03-11 23:00 +0100
                Re: Variant symlink filesystem Cole <cole@opteqint.net> - 2016-03-11 23:10 +0100
                Re: Variant symlink filesystem Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-03-11 23:30 +0100
                Re: Variant symlink filesystem Cole <cole@opteqint.net> - 2016-03-11 23:40 +0100
                Re: Variant symlink filesystem David Lang <david@lang.hm> - 2016-03-11 23:50 +0100
                Re: Variant symlink filesystem Cole <cole@opteqint.net> - 2016-03-12 00:00 +0100
                Re: Variant symlink filesystem David Lang <david@lang.hm> - 2016-03-11 23:50 +0100
          Re: Variant symlink filesystem Cole <cole@opteqint.net> - 2016-03-11 21:40 +0100
            Re: Variant symlink filesystem Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2016-03-11 21:40 +0100
            Re: Variant symlink filesystem David Lang <david@lang.hm> - 2016-03-11 23:40 +0100
        Re: Variant symlink filesystem Cole <cole@opteqint.net> - 2016-03-11 21:30 +0100

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