Importing the fusefs kernel module?

Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i.net
Tue Oct 26 07:09:27 UTC 2010


On Monday 25 October 2010 23:19:04 Kostik Belousov wrote:
> 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.

FYI: There also exists a project called cuse4bsd.

--HPS


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