[oi-dev] ntfs-3g and fuse

[Gordon Ross]

If I get time, I'd like to do something with this.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Milan Jurik <milan.jurik at xylab.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I spoke with one of original OpenSolaris FUSE developers and he consider
> the project as unmaintained on opensolaris.org. Which makes sense for
> Oracle because Solaris 11 has some different implementation of FUSE
> targeting their business needs.
>
> It means (if nobody else) I will apply Jean-Pierre's patches to SFE svn
> repo and then will start work on possible FUSE tree integration to
> illumos.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Milan
>
> Milan Jurik píše v út 24. 01. 2012 v 20:45 +0100:
>> 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....
>> >
>>
>> thank you a lot for that.
>>
>> > 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.
>> >
>>
>> I will integrate your fixes as patches to SFE svn repo and will ask one
>> of original FUSE port developers if he is interested in including it to
>> opensolaris.org project.
>>
>> Again, thank you a lot.
>>
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Jean-Pierre
>> >
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Milan
>>
>>
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