My approach on having sane file system without hacking the kernel

Hi, guys. I've also been pondering on the problem how to have a sane, clean
file system hierarchy within Linux similar to Gobo and how to achieve it
without having to maintain kernel modules. I came to the conclusion that
FUSE is the best solution because it can be used just like gobohide - to
skip the listing of some folders/files while leaving them accessible. But
it is even more powerful because you could create any kind of file system
mix with it and also you don't need to use symlinks and the legacy
hierarchy don't need to be actually present on the disk. Also FUSE is easy
to use and test and have many bindings and examples and docs, nothing like
kernel development. Just wanted to share this idea with you because I know
there are still people interested in the problem and in Gobo's way. I
haven't published any usable results yet as I was experimenting with
building LFS and what can be done with FUSE and other concepts besides the
file system and spend lot of time and energy on it, but I have published
some of my ideas and experience in case it can benefit others on this hard
quest. https://github.com/bobef/disentangle-linux . Regards.

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