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Re:What's So Bad About Posix I/O? by seanp2k2 on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:49PM (#15224401)
>direct access to the block device

And that's more or less a thing that is in widespread use right now! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace

Re:What's So Bad About Posix I/O? by singron on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:30AM (#15225226)
I'm not sure FUSE is all that useful for that. It still goes through the kernel and additionally roundtrips through userspace again. I think the only advantage is the convenience of not having to do kernel development to make a filesystem. I.e. anything you could do with FUSE, you could do in the kernel with fewer copies and context switches.

I'm also not aware of any FUSE filesystems that directly access block devices. They usually have network or other filesystem backends.

Re:What's So Bad About Posix I/O? by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @08:22AM (#15226665)
Ntfs-3g uses FUSE and directly accesses block devices.