[fuse-discuss] Can a full-fearture FUSE be used in solaris now?

[Mark Phalan]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:46 +0200, Mark Phalan wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 08:45 -0700, Virendra Singh wrote:
> > Not sure if I can make it to the meeting.
> > 
> > It would be great if you could please post the outcome to this thread.
> 
> Ok, will do.

Here is the list of stuff we came-up with which still needs to be done.
There is probably stuff we are missing but this is the list we're
working off for the moment:


* Design and implement locking (Sunil)
    o Sunil will try to come up with a plan for this.

* Testing (and resolve the bugs it uncovers)
    o Test suite development (Start with BSD test suite?)
    o Performance testing including analysis with FreeBSD and
      Linux (Perhaps xVM could be utilized here). 
    o Stress testing

* mmap implementation (Sunil)

* Cleanup/refactoring of fuse_vnops.c
    o fuse_vnops.c is over 3k lines of code
    o fuse_vnops.c could be easily split-up into a number of smaller
      pieces (for e.g. the messaging should be completely split out).

* Remove the existing DEBUG() code (Mark)
    o Can rely on dtrace to give visibility when needed
    o Static tracepoints can be added where fbt is not enough

* Add support for the new event monitoring framework (Mark)
    o Appeared in build 72 adds dnotifiy()-like capability to
OpenSolaris

* Finish vnops (Sunil)
    o Mostly already done just need code review

* Build installable packages for people to try out

* Build and package popular filesystems like sshfs, ext2fs, ntfs3g.

* Mount options
    o Get the basic mount options working (ro, nosuid etc)
    o Get (all?) the standard fuse mount options working


-Mark