State of FUSE on FreeBSD

Ben RUBSON ben.rubson at gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 07:26:20 UTC 2017


> On 06 Aug 2017, at 19:40, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 06 2017, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 03 Aug 2017, at 22:22, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 3/8/17 7:38 pm, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I am the upstream maintainer of libfuse. I'd like to refresh / improve
>>>> the FreeBSD support in libfuse. My goal is for libfuse not to require
>>>> any FreeBSD specific patches.
>>> 
>>> Hi, great to hear from you!
>>> at $JOB we use libfuse and We have always worried that we don't really
>>> have anyone in FreeBSD that really has fuse as a priority.
>> 
>> Glad to hear from Nikolaus too, seeing that efforts are taken to keep
>> libfuse FreeBSD compatible out of the box ! For sure this is great !
>> 
>> I also hugely use fuse, so having it to work correctly (at least
>> bug-free) is mandatory for me.
> 
> Would you mind testing the newest libfuse release then?

I just tested to compile it out of the box, it seems to fail :
https://benrubson.github.io/fuse.log

Note that we are still running 2.9(.5) version on FreeBSD :
http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fusefs-libs/

Ben


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