Comment by zozbot234
11 hours ago
Plan9 allows for implementing file servers in user space and exporting a whole file tree as a virtual "folder", so it's really more of "everything as a file server". No different than FUSE, really.
11 hours ago
Plan9 allows for implementing file servers in user space and exporting a whole file tree as a virtual "folder", so it's really more of "everything as a file server". No different than FUSE, really.
From what I've seen, Plan 9 fans turn their noses up at FUSE. They say FUSE is not "it", but don't really seem to explain what "it" is to differentiate it from FUSE.
And as Feynman said, you don't truly understand a thing until you can teach it. So that leaves us in a weird predicament where the biggest proponents of Plan 9 apparently don't understand Plan 9 well enough to teach it to the rest of us.
It depends what you mean by "it". FUSE clearly doesn't give you every feature in plan9, and in fact you can't have that without giving up the current Linux syscall API completely and replacing it with something vastly simpler that leaves a lot more to be done in user space. That's not something that Linux is going to do by default, seeing as they have a backward compatibility guarantee for existing software. Which is totally OK as far as it goes; the two systems just have different underlying goals.
You're frustrating me. You replied to me saying "it's basically FUSE" and then after I replied to you, you come back and say, "it's not really FUSE."
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