[oi-dev] ntfs-3g and fuse

[Jean-Pierre André]

Hi Ken,

ken mays wrote:
> Hi Jean-Pierre,
>
> The original sources are still here:
> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Project+fuse/files/fusefs-20100615.tgz
> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Project+fuse/files/libfuse-20100615.tgz

Yes, but Oracle has mentioned that they do not support
fuse any more, following their changes to the VFS interface.
So this repository is bound to be closed without notice
by Oracle.

> SFE patches (fuse*):
> http://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/spec-files-extra/file/383896da4129/patches
>
> I reviewed the fuse source up to fuse 2.7.6. Maybe someone can fork 
> something from the fuse 2.8.7 branch.

These are version numbers for the fuse library.
The only problem I have found there is in the options
processing, because device patchs contains commas
in Solaris, and the comma is considered as an option
separator. Anyway ntfs-3g ships its own lean "fuse-lite"
library covering all it needs, which is maintained in
the ntfs-3g git repository.

The real problem is about the kernel module, which
is very different from the Linux one (because of a
different VFS). Maintaining patches against a virtually
dead repository is not a good option.

Regards

Jean-Pierre