From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 07:09:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF714106564A; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:09:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) Received: from swip.net (mailfe08.swip.net [212.247.154.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27ACA8FC12; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:09:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=4dE6tNKVm/0afO7MQGRPv7y2YwMo4emTIiDjbh74onY= c=1 sm=1 a=XsWmvbIU2mQA:10 a=Q9fys5e9bTEA:10 a=CL8lFSKtTFcA:10 a=i9M/sDlu2rpZ9XS819oYzg==:17 a=BLIEhfte67SCe0Bhgu4A:9 a=bmRNXRO6FmIuT8YvwPwA:7 a=t-3melNy48VAGpZ45l34bllu5VkA:4 a=PUjeQqilurYA:10 a=i9M/sDlu2rpZ9XS819oYzg==:117 Received: from [188.126.198.129] (account mc467741@c2i.net HELO laptop002.hselasky.homeunix.org) by mailfe08.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.19) with ESMTPA id 40177900; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:59:23 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:00:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-STABLE; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <20101025211904.GM2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20101025211904.GM2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> X-Face: +~\`s("[*|O,="7?X@L.elg*F"OA\I/3%^p8g?ab%RN'(; _IjlA: hGE..Ew, XAQ*o#\/M~SC=S1-f9{EzRfT'|Hhll5Q]ha5Bt-s|oTlKMusi:1e[wJl}kd}GR Z0adGx-x_0zGbZj'e(Y[(UNle~)8CQWXW@:DX+9)_YlB[tIccCPN$7/L' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010260900.35059.hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: Kostik Belousov , Ivan Voras Subject: Re: Importing the fusefs kernel module? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:09:27 -0000 On Monday 25 October 2010 23:19:04 Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:53:08PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > > Fusefs is the Linux-developed userland filesystem interface which is > > fairly popular in the wild, especially with the "sshfs" module which > > allows mounting of generic ssh/sftp directories in a very easy way. > > > > It was developed in one of the very early Google Summer of Code projects > > (2005) and is now in a bit unusual situation: > > > > 1) it *is* popular, as reports about its breakage arrive pretty soon > > after it breaks > > > > 2) it is currently practically unmaintained. The source code archive is > > from 2008 and the port contains a dozen patches to be applied to it to > > make it work on recent systems > > > > 3) it is also not exactly rock stable, though this has improved with the > > above patches; personally I'd judge it to be as stable as ZFS was two > > years ago so there :) > > > > I'm proposing to import the kernel module into the official tree (there > > are also userland libraries under the GPL; they will stay as ports). > > There are no license conflicts for the kernel module. I see two benefits > > from it: > > > > 1) it will finally integrate the patches needed for it to work in one > > tree and provide the "one official place" to work on it > > > > 2) it will be easier to maintain it here, and changes to the VFS APIs > > would be applied to it in sweeping commits together with other file > > systems. > > > > I'm not knowledgeable enough to actively work on it (yet) but I can > > mechanically maintain it and generally take care of it. > > > > Objections? > > This is not going to work. The code is unmaintained. Committing it into > the src/ just makes the pile of not working code in src/ bigger. FYI: There also exists a project called cuse4bsd. --HPS