[oi-dev] ntfs-3g and fuse

Alasdair Lumsden alasdairrr at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 10:07:16 UTC 2012


Hi Jean-Pierre,

Would you have any interest in adding this to the illumos-userland build framework so that it ships with the distribution in future releases?

Regards,

Alasdair


On 28 Feb 2012, at 09:58, Jean-Pierre André wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am now releasing the fuse kernel module for OpenIndiana. Ntfs-3g
> now fully passes the standard tests with this kernel module and without
> need of the workarounds I had to insert earlier to cope with the bad
> behavior of the fuse kernel module originated from OpenSolaris.
> 
> A few optimizations would still be useful. I might have a look at them
> if there is enough demand.
> 
> Available on http://b.andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/openindiana-ntfs-3g.html
> are three packages ready for use :
> 
> - a full ntfs-3g package in 32-bit mode with the fuse-lite library
>  and ntfsprogs
> - a full ntfs-3g package in 64-bit mode with the fuse-lite library
>  and ntfsprogs
> - a fuse kernel module package for both the 32-bit and 64-bit modes
> 
> The raw source files (not packaged according to OpenIndiana
> standards) are also available there.
> 
> I am keeping these files available on line for some time. I also keep
> the change sets available to whoever enters the source code of the
> fuse kernel module into a public source code management
> repository.
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> Jean-Pierre
> 
> 
> Jean-Pierre André wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Milan Jurik wrote:
>>> Hi Jean-Pierre,
>>> 
>>> Jean-Pierre ANDRE píše v út 24. 01. 2012 v 15:16 +0100:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> As a maintainer of ntfs-3g, I have received bug reports on OpenIndiana. Digging into them, I found there were almost all caused by the buggy fuse kernel module, which nobody seems to care about. So I had to do it myself....
> 
> 
> 
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