captive-ntfs FUSE support?

captive-ntfs FUSE support?

[Kristoffer]

captive ntfs: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/CVS.html.pl

Can someone please port cvs captive-ntfs to FUSE?

why?:
Since LUFS is no longer maintained and FUSE is. since to use the LUFIS  
bridge you have to install LUFS, which doesn't go into the kernel anymore  
because it's no longer maintained, and if you did get it to go into the  
kernel it's much more trouble than the LUFS syntax for mounting,etc. And  
LUFS-only doesn't go into the kernel as said. Since gnome-vfs2 doesn't  
work on / dir because of a bug. Since i want the CVS version of captive,  
but i can't get it to compile. Since this is the only working  
non-commercial solution to getting NTFS read/write in linux. Since the  
developer isn't going to implement it(from his mailing list):

# ...
# > I was wondering about the status of captive, is it totally dead?
#
# Yes, before someone writes acceptable Free kernel and before I start to  
make
# some financial income on Captive again.
#
#
# > If not, is there any work being done on actually porting it to fuse by  
anyone?
#
# No. And definitely not by myself as FUSE is Linux kernel bound while the  
Linux
# kernel itself is broken by design and therefore even FUSE is broken by  
design.
#
# BTW the FUSE frontend is really a trivia piece of code, its LUFS  
counterpart is
# 30KB after "sort -u". It would be a part of one evening to code it  
myself but
# it is more a psychological fun for me to watch the Famous Free Software
# Community unable to code this tiny trivia bit of glue to run the wanted
# project. This glue is required just because of LUFS is no longer  
supported and
# LUFS would need to be ported each day according to the mood of the Linux  
kernel
# "developers" - this other part of the Famous Free Software Community  
f*cks up
# the ABI+API of each Linux kernel release themselves and thus turning  
down all
# the people around who still belive that crap could be used for anything.  
Really
# funny. Unfortunately there is still nothing much better available out  
there.

And other more practical reasons for the ones who doesn't code on the  
linux kernel for hobby/profit and nor is a programmer. I would implement  
it myself if i knew how to code, but since i can't i'm asking you.

I'm not signed-up to this list(too much mail) but am following the  
newslist mirror. Please do CC your reply/comments to me though.

Thank you.
- KSF

Re: captive-ntfs FUSE support?

[Michal Schmidt]

Kristoffer wrote:
> captive ntfs: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
> http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/CVS.html.pl
> 
> Can someone please port cvs captive-ntfs to FUSE?

OK. How much do you pay me?
Michal

Re: captive-ntfs FUSE support?

[Daniel Drake]

Kristoffer wrote:
> why?:
> Since LUFS is no longer maintained and FUSE is. since to use the LUFIS  
> bridge you have to install LUFS,

This is not true. lufis is a compatibility layer on top of FUSE which provides 
the same API as lufs (thereby allowing you to load lufs modules into fuse). It 
does not actually rely on any part of lufs.

As for captive, I don't think its worth the effort. It has severe memory 
problems and Linux-NTFS development is going quite fast anyway.

Daniel

Re: captive-ntfs FUSE support?

[Joseph Fannin]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:15:56PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:

> As for captive, I don't think its worth the effort. It has severe memory 
> problems and Linux-NTFS development is going quite fast anyway.

    I haven't seen any real changes in NTFS support in the kernel since
the mid-2.5 series.  Is there somewhere else I should be looking?

    Thanks!

-- 
Joseph Fannin
jfannin@gmail.com

"Bull in pure form is rare; there is usually some contamination by data."
    -- William Graves Perry Jr.

Re: captive-ntfs FUSE support?

[Daniel Drake]

Joseph Fannin wrote:
>     I haven't seen any real changes in NTFS support in the kernel since
> the mid-2.5 series.  Is there somewhere else I should be looking?

The development tree is here:

http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6-devel.git;a=summary

Right now, I think most(/all?) of the patches have been merged into 2.6.13.

Daniel