Comment by moron4hire
9 hours ago
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."
9 hours ago
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."
Plan 9 supports file server processes natively, and that's the part that's most FUSE-like. The full OS also has many other worthwhile features that are not really addressed by FUSE on its own, or even by Linux taken as a whole.
Like. WHAT!!!???
One key difference is that the equivalent to kernel syscalls on *nix generally involves userland-provided services, and this applies to a lot more than just ordinary file access. The local equivalents to arbitrary "containerization/namespacing" and "sandboxing" are just natively available and inherent to how the system works. You can't do this out of the box on *nix where every syscall directly involves kernel facilities, so the kernel must have special provisions to containerize, sandbox, delegate specific things to userland services etc.