Re: linux VFS and non-hierarchical filesystems?

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:39:03AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   i'm curious -- are there any filesystem implementations for linux
> > that don't fit nicely into the VFS model?  that don't follow the
> > convenient file/dentry/inode/superblock standard?
> >
>
> I didn't read about VFS yet, but I've heard that ReiserFS-4 wasn't
> accepted mainline due to VFS abuses. I don't know if those abuses
> were similar to the one you mentioned.

i wasn't thinking so much of deliberate "abuses" so much as just
design decisions that didn't fit nicely into the VFS framework.

rday
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