On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 21:50, Linus Torvalds wrote: > and quite frankly, I think you can do the above pretty much totally in > user space with a small library and a daemon (in fact, ignoring security > issues you probably don't even need the daemon). And if you can prototype > it like that, and people actually find it useful, I suspect kernel support > for better performance might be possible.
Gnome already supports this in the gnome-vfs2 layer. "MC" has supported it since the late 1990's.
