From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 13:05:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F050D1065673 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:05:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A380B8FC14 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PBSB0-0007ZR-7w for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:05:54 +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 ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:05:54 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:05:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:05:47 +0200 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <4CC96DF5.60501@unsane.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20101018 Thunderbird/3.0.8 In-Reply-To: <4CC96DF5.60501@unsane.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Subject: Re: Fixing and importing the fusefs kernel module - any VFS-savvy takers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:05:59 -0000 On 10/28/10 14:35, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 28/10/2010 12:49, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Hello, >> > >> Basically, this is a call for help in working on fusefs. There are >> several developers and users willing to do testing and such but no >> available developers with their hands in the guts of VFS to squash the >> buried bugs. Fusefs might be especially relevant to desktop users and >> as such to PC-BSD developers, so I'm cc-ing Kris in case he has a >> comment. >> >> Is anyone interested? >> > > Would it not make more sense to take the work done here: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/SOC2009TatsianaSeveryna > forward? (not volunteering, just wondering what with the licensing and > all.) Hello, No, the puffs port is in about the same state as fusefs, and fusefs has these benefits over it: * More file systems are developed for fuse (an incomplete list is here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=FileSystems) * It's more popular both among the users and 3d party software developers (like Gnome) * It's better performing, at least in theory, because puffs was not originally written for a multi-threaded kernel (lots of serialization) Licensing isn't a problem since the fuse kernel module is developed from scratch under the BSDL.