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Utility File Systems

Published October 14th, 2007 in File Systems

What’s next? We all know about devfs and similar file systems, and many of us use unionfs or nullfs. However - what other utility file systems would be useful, that we haven’t built yet? I think tools like FUSE have given a lot of people some very creative ways of thinking about file systems, but how can that be extended into other areas?

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  1. 1 ivoras Oct 19th, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    One thing that’s not new is ditching the TCP/IP “sockets” API in favor of file system-like semantics. Historically, Unix has favored “everything is a file” approach and the sockets API was one of the first that didn’t follow that path.

    I feel it’s inconsistent that we can’t just open /dev/fxp0 for reading and sniff the network, or open it for writing and inject packets. :)

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