The main thing I use fuse for is sshfs, where trying to optimize inside the kernel is unlikely to give noticeable gains relative to network latency. And Linus

The main thing I use fuse for is sshfs, where trying to optimize inside the kernel is unlikely to give noticeable gains relative to network latency. And Linus acknowledges: > fuse works fine if the thing being exported is some random low-use > interface to a fundamentally slow device