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ItвЂ™s a log-structured filesystem, based on the assumption that on modern machines, reads will usually be satisfied from the page cache. NTFS, on the other hand, is a fairly well-designed filesystem with some caveats. It doesnвЂ™t take a computer scientist to realize that this is a deeply flawed assumption. The entire design philosophy behind FAT32 was based on the assumption that files rarely get any bigger than when they were first created. YeahвЂ¦ youвЂ™ll be much happier using a filesystem that isnвЂ™t absolute crap. So thatвЂ™s pretty much all you need to know about FUSE and moreвЂ¦ There are also some security concerns since the FUSE implementation involves a setuid root application for handling mounts, but some care has been taken to limit the attack vectors to within the preexisting surface area (which isnвЂ™t quite as secure as you might think). A possible disadvantage is that the kernel can elect to kill a filesystem process to resolve virtual memory starvation, especially if the filesystem had recently been mounted. There is a small latency incurred waiting for the kernel to schedule the filesystem and then the FUSE daemon (or vice versa), but not a significant one. There are many advantages to implementing filesystems in userspace, foremost are ease of development (the kernel environment is significantly more restrictive and complex) and system robustness against buggy filesystems. Once you experience its awesomeness, youвЂ™ll wonder why they even bother with NFS anymore (for the record, thereвЂ™s still many reasons why NFS is superior to sshfs, but not for casual use, where sshfs is just so much easier to use). It will be your Linux distributorвЂ™s responsibility to package the userspace FUSE components and any FUSE filesystems you might wish to use.

The FUSE daemon does use sysfs for control operations (including aborting out of deadlocks, which canвЂ™t be fatal if weвЂ™re allowing userspace filesystems), but this is a very limited and stable interface.

#NTFS 3G STABLE INSTALL#

Basically (if this were to go down), when you make install a new kernel, it would install the corresponding version of udev. This is mainly for daemons that rely heavily on sysfs, which is not nearly as stable across kernel releases as is the system call interface.

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There has been some talk on LKML concerning moving some userspace code into the kernel source tree in order to keep them synchronized with the kernel. So it will never be merged into the kernel, because this doesnвЂ™t make sense. Filesystems developed for FUSE are not linked into the kernel image, do not run in the kernel address space, and donвЂ™t import any symbols from the kernel (besides the system call table).

FUSE is short for вЂњFilesystems in USErspace.вЂќ FUSE itself is in the kernel (available as a module), but it exports a simplified VFS interface to userspace. I think youвЂ™re misunderstanding something. Since itвЂ™s a fuse-driver, it will never be merged in the kernel (But maybe parts of it?).

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