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but why is FUSE used more often?

• vezzy-fnord 11y ago
  FUSE is an informally specified one-stop library that explicitly targets the Linux VFS, so it might be considered more convenient for whatever reason. There's also a general lack of knowledge about Plan 9 and Inferno on anything beyond a superficial level, though this might be improving. 9P is a small generic protocol that is often independently implemented because of its simplicity, so there are many heterogenous libraries for it.
  • jude- 11y ago
    However, FUSE implementations are actively maintained for all the BSDs and OS X as well.
    • vezzy-fnord 11y ago
      Which required significant kernel additions in the case of the BSDs, and is a third-party kext for OS X. In contrast, 9P is just a byte stream protocol that ranges from weekend project implementations in ~1000 LoC (yet still perfectly usable) to full strength client-server libraries. It's much more versatile and can be done entirely in userspace without special kernel cooperation beyond a basic POSIX runtime.