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fuse API stability

fuse API stability

Posted Apr 17, 2008 11:05 UTC (Thu) by mszeredi (subscriber, #19041)
In reply to: OMFS and the value of obscure filesystems by simlo
Parent article: OMFS and the value of obscure filesystems

Backward compatibility in fuse is guaranteed on multiple levels:

 - the raw kernel interface 
 - the library ABI
 - the library API

While new major versions of the library might come out in the future, the old versions will
still be usable.  Just like gtk-1.2 libraries are still around in distributions, many years
after gtk-2.0 has been released.

I agree though, that in case of drivers where a userspace soultion is not available, keeping
support for old hardware in the kernel is a good thing.


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