See what I found on LKML:

,--------------- Messaggio inoltrato (inizio)

 Oggetto: Re: [fuse-devel] Merging?
 Mittente: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 Data: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:51:27 +0100
 Newsgroup: gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.devel

 
 > -You could implement several "not-performance-critical" filesystems (fat,
 >  isofs) with FUSE to avoid possible security issues. Give that nowadays 
 >  usb sticks and cd/dvds are so common it'd be possible to modify a 
filesystem
 >  on purpose to crash the kernel if a bug were found in those filesytems. 
With
 >  FUSE that posibility decreases.
 
 One of my pet ideas, is a userspace loopback mounter, which would use
 UML to actually mount an image, and export the resulting filesystem
 through FUSE to the host.
 
 Brilliant isn't it?
 
 Miklos

`--------------- Messaggio inoltrato (fine)

-- 
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade


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