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

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Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:08:35 +0300 (MET DST)
From:	Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@...s-3g.org>
To:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
cc:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3


On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > > 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.
> 
> Thanks for your advice.  I will look into all these possibilities.
> Fuse working would be quite useful in many other ways too.

ntfs-3g was reported to work on 2.4 no-mmu kernels six months ago (though 
it had no our QA). Please see http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#kernel24 and 
search for nommu on fuse-devel for the details.

	Szaka
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