MPSAFE VFS -- List of upcoming actions

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Michael Butler
<imb at protected-networks.net> wrote:
> On 06/29/12 16:32, Attilio Rao wrote:
>> As already published several times, according to the following plan:
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/NONMPSAFE_DEORBIT_VFS
>>
>> in 2 months the code dealing with non-MPSAFE filesystem will be
>> removed and filesystems not yet MPSAFE will be disconnected from the
>> tree. Their code will be however available in our official repository
>> yet for 6 months. This leaves a total time of 8 months to do actions.
>>
>> Current list of unmantained filesystems is: HPFS, NWFS, PortalFS and
>> XFS. Coda and SMBFS have current mantainership but the status of the
>> work has still to be determined. NTFS, is being worked for the Summer
>> of Code program. Finally, ReiserFS was successfully locked during this
>> campaign.
>
> What is to become of fusefs and friends, i.e. write-capable NTFS and
> truecrypt?
>

fusefs is not a part of the OS.It is a port. I believe gnn@ is working
on it, but I have not seen any report on its status for a while.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558 at gmail.com