linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

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Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:33:57 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	jamie@...reable.org
CC:	dwmw2@...radead.org, hch@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	me@...copeland.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

> > > > > 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.

Fuse-2.5 still supported linux-2.4.  Although I have no idea if it
works with no-mmu, maybe it's worth a try.

Backporting ntfs-3g to an older version of fuse shouldn't be a big
problem, as the fuse interface didn't change very much since then.

Miklos
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