From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261532AbVHDSGZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:06:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262502AbVHDSGY (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:06:24 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.192]:24868 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261532AbVHDSGR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:06:17 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aXvF1o9je/sS8R75ACe0UDfFiNbLl3HEugM9D+wlWylL33sIV/7iLt6C6MDiRO1bnpXtKpvbpzz2jpEzyamGmirYusHBMbZLGL5I6zRcHD+JzPIkUvKHdxhrbDkH2SgbHzorxNiM9rdnatM1O5v5gYVdaVv2fWEr2ZsfNZP8SJ4= Message-ID: <8e6f947205080411067f7a9e78@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:06:16 -0400 From: Will Dyson Reply-To: Will Dyson To: Miklos Szeredi Subject: Re: Obsolete files in 2.6 tree Cc: jirislaby@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <42DED9F3.4040300@gmail.com> <42F145ED.2060008@gmail.com> <8e6f9472050803214250821160@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8/4/05, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Well, don't know about anyone else, but I certainly don't use it > > anymore. If anyone needs a fully-functional befs driver, the easiest > > route to that would probably be getting Haiku's befs driver to compile > > in userland as a FUSE fs. > > That has already been done: > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fuse/mountlo-i386-0.1.tar.gz > > All is needed is a working FUSE installation, and the above binary, to > be able to mount any filesystem image/partition. I think you mis-understand. Mountlo seems to allow one to mount (through FUSE) any filesystem image for which there is a linux kernel kernel driver available. This is a very nice capability. But what I speak of is to port the 100% feature-complete (and well-tested) befs driver from the Haiku project's kernel to the FUSE interface. This should be a considerably easier task than porting it to the linux kernel vfs interface. Among other reasons for this, parts of Haiku's kernel (including their befs driver) are written in c++. -- Will Dyson