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by m4rtink 2341 days ago
Hard to standardize on something that can't be maintained in the same place all your other filesystems are in (in the Kernel) for licensing reasons.
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rbanffy 2340 days ago
Only the boot file system drivers need to be in the kernel. As long as there is a stable ABI, it's fine for everything else to be someplace else.
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skissane 2340 days ago
> As long as there is a stable ABI, it's fine for everything else to be someplace else.

Mainline Linux has a policy against in-kernel ABI stability guarantees. User-space is given ABI stability guarantees, in-kernel code by intention is not. That includes filesystems.

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