Hi Alexander, I too am interested in ext4 modules for fuse and will look into your link more.
It would be a big step forward to have fuse modules for a number of different filesystems as it bring in the ability for people to work with their existing partitions more on Openindiana. Cheers and have a great weekend, Lonnie On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 4:11 AM Alexander Pyhalov via openindiana-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > It seems there is read-only ext4 fuse module - > https://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse . > The more interesting issue that on a lot of systems which I support I have > ext4 on LVM, so I thought plain ext4 fuse driver was of limited use. > > С уважением, > Александр Пыхалов, > программист отдела телекоммуникационной инфраструктуры > управления информационно-коммуникационной инфраструктуры ЮФУ > > > ________________________________________ > От: Jean-Pierre André <[email protected]> > Отправлено: 29 марта 2019 г. 10:47:11 > Кому: [email protected] > Тема: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing pthreads for compiling > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
