> > Are you multithreaded? Like will big ftp download block all FUSE, all ftp,
> > only one server, or everything?
>
> FUSE and AVFS are both multithreaded. Specifically ftp is quite well
> threaded, and a big download will not block any operation, even on the
> same server.
Good!
> > > o user can intentionally block the page writeback operation,
> > > causing a system lockup. I'm not sure this can be solved in
> > > a truly secure way. Ideas?
> >
> > How does GRUB solve this?
>
> What GRUB?
Sorry, I meant HURD. It has "untrusted" filesystems in userland, too.
Pavel
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