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Which are the benefits of projects like FUSE and LUFS?

you can write filesystem drivers easily and more efficiently because your entire computer will not crash just because you forgot to initialize a variable. With userspace file systems, file systems are programs and therefore, programs can crash without affecting the system. Also, you can use a regular debugger like gdb to fix the problems.

iammisc wrote:you can write filesystem drivers easily and more efficiently because your entire computer will not crash just because you forgot to initialize a variable. With userspace file systems, file systems are programs and therefore, programs can crash without affecting the system. Also, you can use a regular debugger like gdb to fix the problems.

Is this the only advantage?
And aren't there any disadvantages?

Is this a school/university assignment question?

First Google Hit for 'FUSE LUFS'.

AJ wrote:Is this a school/university assignment question?

First Google Hit for 'FUSE LUFS'.

No.

However in the FAQ there isn't the reply to my question.

Hi,

A google for 'benefits of FUSE file system'. Before this thread came up, I didn't know what FUSE was. Now I feel I know quite a bit about its pros/cons from 10 minutes of Googling. Please do the same.

Cheers,
Adam

Edit: fixed URL tags

And aren't there any disadvantages?

AFAIK, if too much current comes through FUSE, you need to replace it with another one, or use a circuit breaker, which is more modern.

Seriously now, a filesystem in userspace? Not my type.

inflater wrote:Seriously now, a filesystem in userspace? Not my type.

It's just a layer that lets other implement filesystems in userspace. Read/Write NTFS support on Mac is provided through a user-space filesystem module which sits on top of FUSE.