From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 13 17:01:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED7DF16A469; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:01:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from csaba@beastie.creo.hu) Received: from beastie.creo.hu (www.creo.hu [217.113.62.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFED13C4F5; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:01:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from csaba@beastie.creo.hu) Received: from beastie.creo.hu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beastie.creo.hu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m1DGxNZf070350 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:59:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from csaba@beastie.creo.hu) Received: (from csaba@localhost) by beastie.creo.hu (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m1DGxNER070349; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:59:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from csaba) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:59:23 +0100 From: Csaba Henk To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Message-ID: <20080213165923.GD49155@beastie.creo.hu> References: <3bbf2fe10802061700p253e68b8s704deb3e5e4ad086@mail.gmail.com> <70e8236f0802070321n9097d3fy1b39f637b3c2a06@mail.gmail.com> <867ihdc34c.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080212190207.GB49155@beastie.creo.hu> <86d4r2540f.fsf@ds4.des.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86d4r2540f.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (beastie.creo.hu [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:59:24 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Remove NTFS kernel support X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:01:21 -0000 On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:11:28PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Csaba Henk writes: > > So I think: fuse4bsd (ie, the kld + the mount util) + libfolly + sysctl > > fs could go to base under BSD license. It also might make sense to rebase > > ntfs-3g atop of folly -- although it won't help ntfs-3g being GPL'd. > > That doesn't matter; ntfs-3g can still be a port. > > What does matter is that if libfolly exports the same API as libfuse, we > can have a complete BSD-licensed FUSE implementation in the base system, > with minimal effort required to port FUSE-based file systems. No, it's a different API. I don't see it would have much importance to clone the libfuse API, because: - If FreeBSD wants a filesystem for its own internal purposes (like a filesytem interface to sysctls) it can use folly. - The huge majority of FUSE based filesystems in common use are GPL licensed anyway, and given this, I don't see the gain of having them backed with a BSD licensed library instead of a LGPL'd one. And they are as fine in ports as ntfs-3g is. Csaba