Re: Userspace filesystems (WAS: Encrypted Filesystem)

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

>  2) This one is harder to get rid of, especially because I don't want
>     to delve into the technical merits of one or the other (I'd be a
>     bit biased).  But I have compared both the kernel interface and
>     the library API of LUFS and FUSE and they are very similar.  And
>     that is a good thing, because it makes possible to support LUFS
>     filesystems with the FUSE kernel module and vica versa.

Jean-Luc wrote:
>    app wants to read data from a file ->
>    userspace application requires memory allocation to provide this data ->
>    VM tries to write out dirty data associated with the Coda mountpoint ==
>    deadlock

How do you solve this one?
								Pavel

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