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Hard to standardize on something that can't be maintained in the same place all your other filesystems are in (in the Kernel) for licensing reasons.
by m4rtink 7y ago
Hard to standardize on something that can't be maintained in the same place all your other filesystems are in (in the Kernel) for licensing reasons.
- rbanffy 7y agoOnly the boot file system drivers need to be in the kernel. As long as there is a stable ABI, it's fine for everything else to be someplace else.
- skissane 7y ago> As long as there is a stable ABI, it's fine for everything else to be someplace else. Mainline Linux has a policy against in-kernel ABI stability guarantees. User-space is given ABI stability guarantees, in-kernel code by intention is not. That includes filesystems.