[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mount NTFS USB under OmniOS

[Milan Jurik]

Hi Gordon,

On 02.01.2013 23:38, Gordon Ross wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Milan Jurik <milan.jurik at xylab.cz> 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On st, 2013-01-02 at 13:35 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote:
>>> On 2013-01-02 08:26, Jean-Pierre wrote:
>>> > Up to date ntfs-3g and FUSE for OpenIndiana are available, with
>>> > directions for installing on :
>>> > http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/openindiana-ntfs-3g.html
>>> >
>>> > The same fuse kernel module has also been made available on
>>> > SFE, but ntfs-3g is still an old one there.
>>>
>>
>> yes, I am sorry, I spend my spare time on JDS/Gnome for now (nearly
>> completed task). I will look at it later this month if nobody else.
>>
>>> I wonder what should the policy be about near-kernel support of
>>> foreign filesystems - shouldn't these (and FUSE) go to 
>>> illumos-gate?
>>> For example, the (native) support of pcfs, hsfs and several others
>>> is maintained there...
>>>
>>> This way, all illumos-based distros would have comparable feature
>>> sets in terms of this basic FS interoperability support.
>>>
>>> Or is the main gate's current policy to only maintain the projects
>>> with no external upstream (*BSD etc.)? Then the FSes might go into
>>> common oi-build/illumos-userland/name-du-jour (BTW, which one - if
>>> any - is the active project for non-kernel common illumos 
>>> software?)
>>>
>>
>> It would require to have somebody pushing it to Illumos, with at 
>> least 2
>> reviewers. My current experience is not very good in pushing larger
>> things there, ext2fs did not find any reviewer for a year, WPA
>> enterprise implementation with WiFi improvements and clean ups are 
>> also
>> waiting.
>>
>> In case of FUSE I am not even trying because at least one highly
>> respected RTI advocate was strong opponent of this FUSE 
>> implementation
>> even during his SUN carreer.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Milan
>
> I hope you're not referring to me above.
> I'd like to see these move ahead,
> but have not had time to review...

I am not counting you as opponent, I count you as supporter with 
different implementation, there are others :-)

Best regards,

Milan