Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:05:47 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing and importing the fusefs kernel module - any VFS-savvy takers? Message-ID: <iabsf7$lvc$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <4CC96DF5.60501@unsane.co.uk> References: <AANLkTin0dGcNJMYvXiWC7Diz7jMxAEpXFeeJDK1h3AQO@mail.gmail.com> <4CC96DF5.60501@unsane.co.uk>
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On 10/28/10 14:35, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 28/10/2010 12:49, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Hello, >> > <snip much> >> 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.
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