From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 8 14:03:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54ED106566B for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:03:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842B48FC1B for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:03:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8CHr-0007UN-5L for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:03:47 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:03:47 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:03:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:03:35 +0200 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <4D9E9D4C.3070205@netmusician.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101102 Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: <4D9E9D4C.3070205@netmusician.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Subject: Re: Fuse and s3fs X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:03:53 -0000 On 08/04/2011 07:29, Joe Auty wrote: > Hello, > > I'd really like to get the s3fs FUSE file systems to work in FreeBSD, > but the most recent versions of s3fs (which I'm most interested in > using) require FUSE 2.8.4 or higher, and the ports collection only > includes 2.7.4. > > What would take to update the fusefs-libs port? Since this port includes > patches I'm unsure about whether simply skipping the patches and trying > to build the newest version will work and/or yield positive results, and > the current patches do not seem to work with FUSE 2.8.5. > > Any info on the status of this port and how difficult it would be to > update this? An s3fs port (http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/) would also be > very cool, and probably low dangling fruit with an up-to-date FUSE port. > > Thanks in advance for any info and help you have regarding this port :) The newer version of fuse likely requires additions to the kernel module, so it is no use to simply update the libs port. There is a Google Summer of Code project to finish the FUSE kernel module and it will hopefully update FUSE to a newer version.