Importing the fusefs kernel module?

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 21:19:09 UTC 2010


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:53:08PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Fusefs is the Linux-developed userland filesystem interface which is 
> fairly popular in the wild, especially with the "sshfs" module which 
> allows mounting of generic ssh/sftp directories in a very easy way.
> 
> It was developed in one of the very early Google Summer of Code projects 
> (2005) and is now in a bit unusual situation:
> 
> 1) it *is* popular, as reports about its breakage arrive pretty soon 
> after it breaks
> 
> 2) it is currently practically unmaintained. The source code archive is 
> from 2008 and the port contains a dozen patches to be applied to it to 
> make it work on recent systems
> 
> 3) it is also not exactly rock stable, though this has improved with the 
> above patches; personally I'd judge it to be as stable as ZFS was two 
> years ago so there :)
> 
> I'm proposing to import the kernel module into the official tree (there 
> are also userland libraries under the GPL; they will stay as ports). 
> There are no license conflicts for the kernel module. I see two benefits 
> from it:
> 
> 1) it will finally integrate the patches needed for it to work in one 
> tree and provide the "one official place" to work on it
> 
> 2) it will be easier to maintain it here, and changes to the VFS APIs 
> would be applied to it in sweeping commits together with other file systems.
> 
> I'm not knowledgeable enough to actively work on it (yet) but I can 
> mechanically maintain it and generally take care of it.
> 
> Objections?
This is not going to work. The code is unmaintained. Committing it into
the src/ just makes the pile of not working code in src/ bigger.
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