From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 25 21:19:09 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 9EB4A106564A for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:19:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from mail.zoral.com.ua (mx0.zoral.com.ua [91.193.166.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 160038FC14 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:19:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (root@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua [10.1.1.148]) by mail.zoral.com.ua (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o9PLJ46T088043 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:19:04 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (kostik@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9PLJ4xH038606; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:19:04 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: (from kostik@localhost) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o9PLJ4G7038605; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:19:04 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua: kostik set sender to kostikbel@gmail.com using -f Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:19:04 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov To: Ivan Voras Message-ID: <20101025211904.GM2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2EBbOLNpWrgl9Xdv" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.2 at skuns.kiev.zoral.com.ua X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_50, DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on skuns.kiev.zoral.com.ua Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:19:09 -0000 --2EBbOLNpWrgl9Xdv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:53:08PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > Fusefs is the Linux-developed userland filesystem interface which is=20 > fairly popular in the wild, especially with the "sshfs" module which=20 > allows mounting of generic ssh/sftp directories in a very easy way. >=20 > It was developed in one of the very early Google Summer of Code projects= =20 > (2005) and is now in a bit unusual situation: >=20 > 1) it *is* popular, as reports about its breakage arrive pretty soon=20 > after it breaks >=20 > 2) it is currently practically unmaintained. The source code archive is= =20 > from 2008 and the port contains a dozen patches to be applied to it to=20 > make it work on recent systems >=20 > 3) it is also not exactly rock stable, though this has improved with the= =20 > above patches; personally I'd judge it to be as stable as ZFS was two=20 > years ago so there :) >=20 > I'm proposing to import the kernel module into the official tree (there= =20 > are also userland libraries under the GPL; they will stay as ports).=20 > There are no license conflicts for the kernel module. I see two benefits= =20 > from it: >=20 > 1) it will finally integrate the patches needed for it to work in one=20 > tree and provide the "one official place" to work on it >=20 > 2) it will be easier to maintain it here, and changes to the VFS APIs=20 > would be applied to it in sweeping commits together with other file syste= ms. >=20 > I'm not knowledgeable enough to actively work on it (yet) but I can=20 > mechanically maintain it and generally take care of it. >=20 > 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. --2EBbOLNpWrgl9Xdv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzF9EgACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4gVngCg9YXz6HPSYCEMqquDuCAD1tw4 AXAAoJ1/GGPBHAQu6RF/Z0a3hCEeuOxV =zdAf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2EBbOLNpWrgl9Xdv--