Bubble Boy

Apparently, I've been living in a bubble. A good read through the material on BeFS was very enlightening. And then I went over to The Man Also Known As "I'm Batman!"'s blog on the back of this slashdot post.

This is just incredible stuff! I genuinely thought I was on to something, but look: it's been a core part of the BeOS experience for years. And AKA I'm Batman has pretty much nailed a lot of the lower level issues. It's an amazing blog, and I am in awe.

Personally, I think it would be fantastic boost to Linux (and BSD, Solaris) to adopt BeFS as a reference file system. This has the advantage of perhaps being quicker to implement than Batman's BDB+FUSE cocktail, since there exists a linux project (somewhat dormant) that implements a BeFS driver. On the other hand, the advantage of FUSE is the potential for extensibility as it resides outside of the kernel.