Jamie Lokier wrote:
However, as far as I know it's not accessible in a file-as-directory form as yet. In my opinion that is the most natural form and it would be very intuitive to use. I hope we can pick a useful semantics for them, and also provide filesystem-independent plugins with GNU Hurd-like per-user extensibility.
-- Jamie
* plenty == too much. Gnome, KDE, Emacs and Bash all see different virtual filesystems. (All but Bash implement their own virtual filesystem extensions). That makes them much less useful than they could be.
It has always bugged me that Gnome and KDE implement their own VFS layers.
It seems to me that having a standard userspace filesystem layer like FUSE (http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf) would provide a lot of the benefit that HURD users (all 5 of them) see from filesystem "translators". Now, safely allowing unprivileged users to run arbitrary userspace filesystems would be a real trick. But, if it were possible, it could be combined with files-as-directories in some rather neat ways.
-- Will Dyson "Back off man, I'm a scientist!" -Dr. Peter Venkman
