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In message <47166BA5.1000100@elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:

>> Having a userland 
>> interface also makes it easier to have backends that are entirely in 
>> userland.
>>
>maybe a loopback filesystem

Just what is it that is so enticing about the kernel ?  Why not simply
pass it to a daemon ?

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