freebsd-fs Digest, Vol 119, Issue 2

[Danny Graham]

Very Nice dude!

I've been wanting to port fuse or lufs for awhile now - but I'm just 
exhausted when I get off work. Very nicely done!

On 9/2/05, freebsd-fs-request at freebsd.org <freebsd-fs-request at freebsd.org> 
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> 1. [ANN] Google Soc: Fuse port with sshfs support (Csaba Henk)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Csaba Henk <csaba.henk at creo.hu>
> To: freebsd-fs at freebsd.org, freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 08:41:20 +0200
> Subject: [ANN] Google Soc: Fuse port with sshfs support
> Hi!
> 
> I'm glad to announce the first public release of my Fuse port
> to FreeBSD. Fuse is programmer-friendly userspace filesystem
> framework, getting more and more popular, originally written
> for Linux. See more at http://fuse.sourceforge.net.
> 
> As a Google Summer of Code 2005 participant, my aim was
> originally to provide FreeBSD with an ssh based networked
> filesystem. I went on to port Fuse because this is already
> available there. The instructions to run Fuse on FreeBSD
> with sshfs can be found in the README of the tarball.
> 
> Look for the latest tarball in
> 
> http://creo.hu/~csaba/projects/fuse4bsd/downloads/
> 
> as fuse4bsd-<version>.tar.bz2. (Currently this means
> version 0.01).
> 
> What is closest to be a project homepage is
> 
> http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/FuseFilesystem
> 
> Latest development versions will be available via Darcs,
> the
> 
> darcs get http://creo.hu/~csaba/darcs-repos/fuse4bsd
> 
> command gets them for you.
> 
> The release is pretty much beta quality, so don't run them
> on production servers, given that you have production servers
> running CURRENT, as it's been developed on/for that branch
> (should work with RELENG-6, too, though). But certainly now
> you can mount them, even if you don't run NFS on them -- what
> they will see from inside is just an ordinary sftp connection...
> 
> And you can try the other things, like GmailFS, and Fuse frontends to
> compression libraries, and so on (see the list at
> http://fuse.sourceforge.net/filesystems.html). Mainly their usability
> should depend on the portability of their private userspace solutions,
> which shouldn't mean a big problem in the world of open source Unices
> and lookalikes. (I personally didn't yet get there to play with them.)
> 
> Any feedback is warmly welcome at my FreeBSD dot org address,
> soc-chenk.
> 
> Regards,
> Csaba
> 
> 
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Regards,
Danny Graham