[Bug 184013] [fusefs] truecrypt broken (probably fusefs issue)

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--- Comment #5 from jonathan derose <kb3ngb at gmail.com> ---
i know it has been a while since i posted anything here, but give up was the
last thing i did..
since then i've actually forked the code, and also moved, i have a working
portfile for  11 i will put back here when i get my workstation power connected
later this week.
the problem was with UFS; i forget what the exact thing was, as i looked at
that long ago, but it wasn't going to be resolved easily and so i chose to
focus on finding a common format that would work reasonably across macos, linux
and FreeBSD. although my effort primarily targets working on FreeBSD, i also
have maintained support for the other two. In the process, I completely rewrote
the file system detection/arbitration code used for FreeBSD to use a little
magic now. th it's not simply the dumb version they had included; we try a
little harder now...in fact the freebsd code for this task was little more than
a stub to be finished later...anyhow my solution was to change the default
filesystem to the ext3fs provided by the kernel which works wonderfully, and
i've also patched OSXfuse to work with it, and made it the default there, and
in the linux version. alper akcan was kind enough to accept my changes to
osxfuse and pull them back in to his distribution. i've looked in to adding
support for ZFS and i think it is very possible although it will take me some
time and i'm rather swamped right now, i have a plan of attack, and i plan on
attacking it. for now i have a version up on github, at
http://github.com/adouble42/nemesis-current and a more current working copy on
my internal gitweb accessible via tor at
http://qpbt3kpraplo7ias.onion/?p=nemesis.git;a=summary
the onion link is probably more current by far than github, it also might
require some monkeying around as it's what my current effort is. i've had to
change the name of the project and strengthened some things such as the KDF,
although i can easily change it to read existing containers with the old KDF
iterations for the fellow from several years back, should he still have this
issue. linux would have been using ext3 anyway so that would work just fine.
the portfile pulls a known stable revision from my git and i plan on submitting
it for review shortly. it is my intention to continue to maintain the fork, at
the time i answered this,  had no idea i'd be going that far...should anyone
see this that is or knows the right person to talk to regarding contributing a
port please do reach out
thanks
tl;dr UFS is hopelessly broken or pointlessly at least as it is here; it's an
easier effort to rewrite core_freebsd to use zfs and ext3. my forks changes in
that respect should backport to the original as drop in; will attempt although
i do suggest  giving the fork a chance. it was a lot of work to get this back
on track and honestly moving forward seems the best idea given the amount of
effort involved it seems slightly crazy not to improve the rest in order to at
least mitigate the effects of Moore's law. that's not to say compatibility with
existing data be damned , of course...
http://github.com/adouble42/nemesis-current
or
http://qpbt3kpraplo7ias.onion/?p=nemesis.git;a=summary
onion more current
portfile to follow

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