Importing the fusefs kernel module?
Alex Kozlov
spam at rm-rf.kiev.ua
Mon Oct 25 21:29:19 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?
Have You considered the possibility of importing puffs/refuse instead?
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/puffs/
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Adios
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