Re: More compatibility for refuse

[coypu%sdf.org@localhost]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 08:55:05PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> <coypu%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > If anything we should get rid of perfuse.
> 
> FUSE has thee API: kernel level, low level and high level.
> 
> refuse only implements the high level API
> 
> perfuse implements the kernel API, libfuse runs on top of it and
> provides low level API and high level API. `
> 
> Hence, perfuse supports all FUSE filesystems, while refuse can only
> supports the one that use the high level API.
> 
> If you want to dive into more details, here is my EuroBSDcon 2014 paper
> on that stuff: http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz/fuse.pdf
> 
> 
> -- 
> Emmanuel Dreyfus
> http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
> manu%netbsd.org@localhost

I'm just going to commit code without code review if all the responses
are going to be "please don't work on X, work on Y instead".
I am interested in librefuse because that's what gets used.