Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Martin Helm <martin@null-a.de> wrote:
I doubt a little bit that the user space part really affects the performance, at least I cannot see any valid reason from a programmers point of view.
I don't know if you do any kernel level programming, but the kernel / userspace boundary is common bottleneck concern for kernel devs.
There was a paper published in the Communications of the ACM: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1774130 http://www.csl.sri.com/users/gehani/papers/SAC-2010.FUSE.pdf I'm pretty certain it concludes that user-space file-systems (FUSE specifically) do perform measurably worse than kernel-space filesystems. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.2°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org