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

From: Szabolcs Szakacsits
Date: Wed Apr 16 2008 - 21:34:31 EST



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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