Filesystems are dead, or should die [LWN.net]

Filesystems are dead, or should die

Posted Oct 1, 2005 21:01 UTC (Sat) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: Filesystems are dead, or should die by eff-tech
Parent article: Reiser4 and kernel inclusion

> The thing to do, if you insist on having a filesystem at all, is to make it as simple and safe as possible and to provide a mechanism for user code to be called when certain filesystem events happen

Funny advice that, we all know that journaling adds complexity to a FS, so safe and simple are conflicting options.

>Even better, though, is to just get rid of filesystems. See EROS and Coyotos.

Better in which sense?
In a paper on EROS, I've read that the main reason that EROS is bigger than L4 is because of its single storage mechanism.

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