Creating Linux virtual filesystems [LWN.net]

Creating Linux virtual filesystems

Posted Oct 23, 2002 18:38 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Creating Linux virtual filesystems by airwin
Parent article: Creating Linux virtual filesystems

Sorry you didn't like it...it was meant to be a far more technical piece than usually appears on the Kernel Page. The technical level of that page isn't changing, but I think it's worth putting in some more hardcore stuff occasionally.

"The introduction gives the impression that we might end up with hundreds of special file systems in the near future, and I believe that would be an even worse mess than the current /proc. "

That is a definite risk; the Linux system of the future could well have management issues that we don't see now.

"Your conclusion then does give a tantalizing indication that there are other ways to export information than a special file system, but this needs expansion."

The device model was covered in some detail back in August.

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Creating Linux virtual filesystems

Posted Oct 23, 2002 19:40 UTC (Wed) by airwin (guest, #6920) [Link]

Thanks for that additional link.

Creating Linux virtual filesystems

Posted Oct 24, 2002 7:42 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link]

Well a filesystem that lives in its own module doesn't bother anyone who doesn't load it. "lwnfs" now exists. It bothers noone. Those who want their linux-box to be able to count in kernel-mode can insmod it, the rest of us can go on our merry way.

:-)