The VFS that is available as alpha (tsx-11, ALPHA) has the problem that

it wants you to rewrite almost everything when you add a filesystem (ie,

have a minix_open, and a ffs_open etc), which I find a bit boring, and

also makes for somewhat ugly code (several versions of essentially the

same set of functions). I decided that I didn't want to lock into that

yet: it might still be the way linux goes, but I don't want to have an

official release that binds me to something I think could maybe be

implemented cleaner.
VFS will come, but I'd rather see it (I'll implement it too, perhaps) as

a collection of just the low-level routines (read_inode(),

write_inode(), read_dir_entry(), write_dir_entry(), _bmap() etc), where

the general routines like "link()" etc would be the same for all

systems.
		Linus