[osol-discuss] FUSE on Solaris

[Roland Mainz]

"Gerard J. Cerchio" wrote:
> 
> Hi Frankho,
> 
> Has there been any progress or discussion porting FUSE to Solaris?

Well, first I'd like to see FUSE revamped a little bit. Last time I
checked (note: My knowledge is almost a year old so I could be wrong) it
was very difficult to write FUSE servers in languages which do not
support threading (e.g. |fuse_main()| is extremly difficult to integrate
into the main event loop of existing, single-threaded applications) or
implementing disconnect/recommect of the server without rendering the
whole mounted file system invalid. Also missing was locking, record
locking, mmap() and ACL support (which would be required to create full
NTFS, SMB and NFS support on top of FUSE) and support for controlling
the inode-numbering from the application even - which is very important
for getting FUSE filesystems exported via NFS (e.g. without inode
numbers which remain valid across reboots of the server (e.g. FUSE
server restart or whole operating system restart) it's hard to get FUSE
filesystems exported without blowing-up all NFS clients when the server
restarts).
... beyond these complains it would be very nice to have FUSE in
Solaris... :-)

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Bye,
Roland

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