Fixing and importing the fusefs kernel module - any VFS-savvy takers?

2010-10-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Hello, After a discussion in arch@, it looks like there are many developers interested in having fusefs in the tree but no VFS experts with the time to fix the remaining bugs and basically make it stable enough to commit to the base tree. Fusefs is the Linux-developed userland filesystem

Re: Fixing and importing the fusefs kernel module - any VFS-savvy takers?

2010-10-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
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

Re: Fixing and importing the fusefs kernel module - any VFS-savvy takers?

2010-10-28 Thread Ivan Voras
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

Re: Fixing and importing the fusefs kernel module - any VFS-savvy takers?

2010-10-28 Thread Gleb Kurtsou
On (28/10/2010 13:49), Ivan Voras wrote: Hello, After a discussion in arch@, it looks like there are many developers interested in having fusefs in the tree but no VFS experts with the time to fix the remaining bugs and basically make it stable enough to commit to the base tree. Fusefs

Re: Fixing and importing the fusefs kernel module - any VFS-savvy takers?

2010-10-28 Thread Gustau PĂ©rez
Al 28/10/10 13:49, En/na Ivan Voras ha escrit: 1) it *is* popular, as reports about its breakage arrive pretty soon after it breaks (i.e. due to mainline kernel changes) 2) it is currently available as a port but it is practically unmaintained. The source code archive is from 2008 and the port

Re: Fixing and importing the fusefs kernel module - any VFS-savvy takers?

2010-10-28 Thread Ivan Voras
On 28 October 2010 16:15, Gleb Kurtsou gleb.kurt...@gmail.com wrote: I'd agree that sshfs is most wanted feature, but fuse_sshfs implementation is broken at best. It doesn't even have notion on inode numbers. It returns all directory entries with d_file=0, the same way st_ino=0. To make it

Re: Fixing and importing the fusefs kernel module - any VFS-savvy takers?

2010-10-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:24:37 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org On 28 October 2010 16:15, Gleb Kurtsou gleb.kurt...@gmail.com wrote: I'd agree that sshfs is most wanted feature, but fuse_sshfs implementation is broken at best. It

Re: Fixing and importing the fusefs kernel module - any VFS-savvy takers?

2010-10-28 Thread Gleb Kurtsou
On (28/10/2010 22:24), Ivan Voras wrote: On 28 October 2010 16:15, Gleb Kurtsou gleb.kurt...@gmail.com wrote: I'd agree that sshfs is most wanted feature, but fuse_sshfs implementation is broken at best. It doesn't even have notion on inode numbers. It returns all directory entries with

Re: Fixing and importing the fusefs kernel module - any VFS-savvy takers?

2010-10-28 Thread Ivan Voras
On 28 October 2010 23:57, Gleb Kurtsou gleb.kurt...@gmail.com wrote: On (28/10/2010 22:24), Ivan Voras wrote: On 28 October 2010 16:15, Gleb Kurtsou gleb.kurt...@gmail.com wrote: I'd agree that sshfs is most wanted feature, but fuse_sshfs implementation is broken at best. It doesn't even

Re: Fixing and importing the fusefs kernel module - any VFS-savvy takers?

2010-10-28 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Gleb Kurtsou wrote: Besides as far as I know OpenAFS has user-kernel interface and implements filesystem at userspace. Sun or Apple have reimplemented fuse The filesystem portions of OpenAFS are implemented in-kernel. Userspace utilities are for manipulating and