Hi Jean-Pierre, Thanks for the info and I would also like to look at that to see how things are done. Do you have a link to the fuse code? Cheers, Lonnie
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 3:47 AM Jean-Pierre André < [email protected]> wrote: > Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > > > [...] > > >> > >> There is no native driver for OI to support ext2/ext3/ext4. Apparently > >> the filesystem in userspace (FUSE) code worked at one point, but IIRC > >> it's not currently working. That would likely be the easiest approach > >> to get minimal access to ext volumes, but again, I don't think it's > >> working right now. > >> > >> > > Yea, I was digging around the Internet and it seems that there is no real > > support for this. Perhaps, I can dig into the FUSE code at some point to > > see if maybe I can get it working in the near future since I think that > it > > would be useful to be able to mount different filesystems as well. > > I recently pushed an update to the fuse code, and I expect it > to work properly. In fact, I am using ntfs over fuse for nearly > everything (documentation, source code, music, backups, etc.) > shareable among Windows, Linux and OpenIndiana. > > There is an old implementation of ext2 based on fuse, the > current state of which I do not know. IMHO, as fuse and ext2 > did not get significant changes for years, I would expect reviving > it to be a simple task. Upgrading it to read-only ext4 should even > be possible with reasonable effort, so the real challenge > would be to provide read-write ext4 (even with no journalling). > > Jean-Pierre > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- Best Regards, Lonnie T. Cumberland, PhD. Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
