Hi all,
I'm not sure this question fits this forum, so please move it if it's off topic.
I'm reasoning about the advantages of kioslaves over fuse: kioslaves provides a file-system view of something that could not be a filesystem, at least the way I understand it. This "view" is fully integrated in the desktop, but is not simply available outside the desktop, e.g., in a shell. On the other hand, FUSE allows you to achieve similar goals, allowing you to access it also outside the desktop. Am I understanding wrong what kioslaves are? Any comments?

KIO Slaves are in addition highly portable between operating systems - and do not cause applications to hang if they get into trouble (mount a NFS/CIFS drive then pull out the network cable and see what happens).

Further, they can be given metadata (and can send metadata back as well) by the application to control how it will behave.

bcooksley wrote:KIO Slaves are in addition highly portable between operating systems - and do not cause applications to hang if they get into trouble (mount a NFS/CIFS drive then pull out the network cable and see what happens).

Further, they can be given metadata (and can send metadata back as well) by the application to control how it will behave.

Yeah thanks, being another layer over the FS kioslaves can control data access. Cool!