MPSAFE VFS -- List of upcoming actions

[Chuck Burns]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:03:46 -0700
Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 07/17/2012 22:54, Gustau Pérez i Querol wrote:
> > In fact filesystems not particulary specific and not tied our kernel
> > would go to userspace; thinks like smbfs, nwfs, ntfs, ext2 o ext4 for
> > example should be in userspace
> 
> A big -1 here.
> 
> The more native FS support we have the better off we are in terms of
> both people migrating from other OS', and people who need to maintain
> compatibility with other OS'. Personally I use both msdosfs and ext2fs
> extensively for the latter purpose, and would not want to see either
> removed.

Agree with Doug.  Fuse is generally much slower than native access, and has higher CPU cost as well.  My poor athlonxp 2k+ jumps to 100% CPU usage when I copy files from either an ext4fuse or ntfs-3g filesystem to UFS.  Please do not remove native access, and I would like to see even more native support.

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Chuck Burns <break19 at gmail.com>