TDFS ... or other distributed file system technologies for FreeBSD?

[Csaba Henk]

On 2007-03-27, Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> wrote:
> Since FUSE is (L)GPL'ed, chances of getting it into base are slim. Then
> there's the question of who would be responsible for it, since the
> developer of the FUSE BSD module was also a SoC student and I don't know
> if he's interested in maintaining it that way - I'll go ask him.

Yep, Ivan asked me so its time for me to chime in. (Thanks for waking me
up from my sleeping beauty state.)

I think fuse4bsd could and should included into FreeBSD.

Why is it not yet there?

Those FBSD commiters I talked with gave a positive feedback so the
reason is not that anyone had opposed such an addition.

The reason is the combination of my perfectionalism and
business/laziness.

I wanted to achieve certain milestones before asking for having it
merged in. I didn't achieve them last year. Now it's time to change
strategy. While certain features are missing (and will be for a while),
the existing code works well and is not yet bitrotten. So while I might
whine to myself about those missing features, the average FUSE based
filesystem will run happily with it and I think the average FreeBSD
user Joe could be happy with what she gets. To add, much more happier
with what is availabe as sysutils/fusefs-kmod from the ports tree --
current fuse4bsd is pretty much superior than version 0.3.0 (the one in
ports).

So, whom to pester about getting fuse4bsd merged?...

Csaba