Thanks again. I'll dig into it more to be sure. Cheers, Lonnie
On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 7:34 AM Jean-Pierre André < [email protected]> wrote: > Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > > 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? > > The latest source code of the fuse kernel module is at : > https://github.com/jurikm/illumos-fusefs/commits/master/ > > More details (and updated binary code) on : > http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/openindiana-ntfs-3g.html > (Note : version 1.3AR.5 is identical to 1.4) > > The fuse library part (dynamically linked from the user space > file system) can be installed by : > pkg install pkg:/library/libfuse > > Jean-Pierre > > > 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
