[oi-dev] ntfs-3g and fuse

[Alasdair Lumsden]

Hi Jean-Pierre,

Great work! I wonder if we could find a way to get these fixes applied 
upstream.

We would also like to add ntfs-3g to oi-build (illumos-userland)

Cheers,

Alasdair

On 24/01/2012 14:16, Jean-Pierre ANDRE wrote:
> 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....
>
> If anybody is interested, please see http://b.andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/openindiana-ntfs-3g.html
>
> Bugs fixed in the fuse kernel module :
>
> - Return st_blocks as defined by the file system
> - Process the error returned by the file system on unlink()
> - Do not send create() for existing files to the file system
> - Delete sent messages when no reply is expected (memory leak)
> - Clear the gaps left when writing beyond the end of file
> - Fix the reference count on directories in order to send releasedir (memory leak)
>
> I have still not found why the file size is limited to 2GB.
>
> Please note I am not the maintainer or packager of fuse, so whoever wants to take it over would be welcome.
>
> Regards
>
> Jean-Pierre
>
>
>
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