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		sedachv on March 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bcachefs: “the COW filesystem for Linux that won't... > What's the problem with fuse? 1. Only available on Android when rooted. 2. Support varies between OSes. For example OpenBSD's FUSE does not have the default_permissions/allow_other flags, which makes for example encfs (and any other virtual filesystems that are backed by multiple files) a pain to use since OpenBSD 6.0 removed user mounting.

khc on March 22, 2017 [–]

1. most filesystems won't be available on Android anyway, this point is moot

2. most non-fuse filesystems won't be ported to your BSD of choice anyway

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