From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:35:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20080414223556.GA21340@shareable.org> References: <20080413080130.GA9622@infradead.org> <20080413012001.8d7967f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413082815.GA20108@infradead.org> <1208121358.2700.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080414094215.GD2076@shareable.org> <20080414115540.GA5802@shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, me@bobcopeland.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Miklos Szeredi Return-path: Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:50853 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752801AbYDNWgf (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:36:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > Yes, that's quite annoying as FUSE doesn't work with my architecture, > > > > so I can't use the only good NTFS driver.... grr! :-) > > > > > > I'm not quite getting this joke :) > > > > It's not really a joke. It really is a problem: I'm supposed to > > provide NTFS support for a project, but the kernel I'm using doesn't > > work with FUSE (too old for the FUSE version needed by ntfs-3g), > > How old? The out of tree fuse module (hoping to get rid of it soon) > works down to 2.6.9. Beyond that it does probably require a fair > amount of porting work. I imagine that backporting FUSE to 2.4 no-mmu will be more work than backporting a filesystem, but I could be mistaken. Moving my project to a 2.6 kernel (*any* 2.6 kernel) would be much more work than either. All other filesystems I care about are in-kernel - NTFS is quite exceptional in needing FUSE just to get ordinary, stable file access. (The in-kernel NTFS is regarded as unstable and missing essential basic features.) None of this should be taken as any kind of criticism. I love what you guys have done. -- Jamie