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I ask having no idea... Does Linux allow for a file system to be invoked at run-time using a general-purpose interface? (If not, could one be added?) If ZFS c

by billpg 11y ago

I ask having no idea... Does Linux allow for a file system to be invoked at run-time using a general-purpose interface? (If not, could one be added?) If ZFS could be modified to use the general-purpose interface, people who wanted to use it could download it and install it.

laumars 11y ago
Yup. It's called FUSE and ZFS is available that way as well. The problem with running file systems in the user space is that they're generally really slow since you're chucking lots more data backwards and forwards between the user space and kernel space. So kernel drivers are much preferred in this instance.