Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3

From: Jamie Lokier
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 11:24:11 EST


Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > 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.

Thanks for your advice. I will look into all these possibilities.
Fuse working would be quite useful in many other ways too.

-- Jamie
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