Canonical Comes Up With Its Own FUSE Filesystem For Linux Containers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Canonical Comes Up With Its Own FUSE Filesystem For Linux Containers

Canonical has been developing LXCFS, a FUSE-based file-system for LXC containers that will premiere with the upcoming release of Ubuntu 15.04...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LXCFS-FUSE-Linux-Containers

[Pajn]

Interesting. Hopefully the Apache license and Github hosting can make it gain traction.

[gnufreex]

Canical is trully useless company. Now it is official.

[rikkinho]

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Canical is trully useless company. Now it is official.

why?

[TheSoulz]

why?

beacuse canonical killed hes kitty, why else?

[Guest]

why?

Canonical obviously threw his entire bloodline into bankruptcy

Not sure what's worse; debates about systemd, or complaints about Canonical/Ubuntu...

[jaxxed]

why?

He's probably trying to refer to this as another case of Canonical developing their own version of an existing product. They are in effect reproducing the docker product, although sticking with LXC.

I for one think that it's a good idea, as the docker guys are kind of trying to lead the community in their own direction, which some people don't like (desktop devs in particular.) In particular, their abandoning of LXC upset some folks. I think that some more competition in this new container software area is a good thing. Their is another group pushing LXC/cGroup containers, but the names has slipped my brain.

[magika]

He's probably trying to refer to this as another case of Canonical developing their own version of an existing product. They are in effect reproducing the docker product, although sticking with LXC.

I for one think that it's a good idea, as the docker guys are kind of trying to lead the community in their own direction, which some people don't like (desktop devs in particular.) In particular, their abandoning of LXC upset some folks. I think that some more competition in this new container software area is a good thing. Their is another group pushing LXC/cGroup containers, but the names has slipped my brain.

Yea, and because of that developing their own CLA'ed filesystem is a good idea.

[timtas]

Yea, and because of that developing their own CLA'ed filesystem is a good idea.

I think it a very good idea actually, as fuse is a well-tested kernel infrasctructure and IMHO the best approach for virtual filesystems, certainly much better than all that gvfs crap, dependending on everything plus the kitchen sink to get something done.

[Mike Frett]

Like them or not, Canonical made Linux popular. They also are partially responsible for the Gaming revolution we are in by working with Steam (before Steam decided to go with Debian). I'm truly starting to think some of you actually WANT Linux to fail or are trying hard to keep it in the shadows. Really, you shouldn't continue in that fashion.