Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:33:57 +0200 |
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> > > > > 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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