Rick Langschultz wrote:
Personally this would be my choice.
Tell me what you all think.
I think that it would make sense to implement whatever filesystems we can -- leaving it to the user to be able to use what they like/trust/want to tinker with.
Here's a question, again, from an uneducated vantage point: Would it be possible and not terribly complicated to incorporate "virtual" IFS drivers that would allow for compression and encryption to be shared among all filesystems, so that they happen in the kernel, and the kernel can support it on filesystems that natively support it as well as those that don't by means of an index file per drive or directory to store the "extended" attributes of a file (compressed, encrypted, whatever)? This would then in theory allow filesystems such as FAT to have transparently compressed and/or encrypted files, even though I would not recommend FAT to and end user to be used in the first place, but that's just my own personal opinion.
- Mike