FUSE For FreeBSD Nearing Completion

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FUSE For FreeBSD Nearing Completion

The FUSE kernel module for the FreeBSD kernel to support file-systems in user-space is -- finally -- nearing completion...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA2OTA

[staalmannen]

nice!

Hopefully this will provide a way to mount ext4 disks in FreeBSD. This has been one of my hurdles for switching: my external harddrives are formatted ext4 and I can not be bothered to move all that data to some other intermediate storage to convert to a FreeBSD compatible file system. Quite sad actually that the most "reliable" transfer file system between the *BSDs and Linux is FAT...

[rvalles]

http://wiki.minix3.org/en/SummerOfCode2011/Fuse

[vertexSymphony]

nice!

Hopefully this will provide a way to mount ext4 disks in FreeBSD. This has been one of my hurdles for switching: my external harddrives are formatted ext4 and I can not be bothered to move all that data to some other intermediate storage to convert to a FreeBSD compatible file system. Quite sad actually that the most "reliable" transfer file system between the *BSDs and Linux is FAT...

I used to format intermediate stuff as ext2 or ext3, can't remember exactly ...
And, if you're ok with readonly in one of the OSes, then you have a wider set of more stable/capable filesystems

Regards.

[curaga]

BSD doesn't do UDF?

[dacresbu]

Toys are educational. I'd love to use Google Docs FS as a toy it would be a very useful toy and a fun one at that. Speaking of which, is the FS interface so different between BSD and XNU(MacOSX) that they couldn't crib off that? can we do HFS+rw in userspace on fuse? ext4 has that been done yet?

[vermaden]

nice!

Hopefully this will provide a way to mount ext4 disks in FreeBSD. This has been one of my hurdles for switching: my external harddrives are formatted ext4 and I can not be bothered to move all that data to some other intermediate storage to convert to a FreeBSD compatible file system. Quite sad actually that the most "reliable" transfer file system between the *BSDs and Linux is FAT...

EXT4 is fully usable under FreeBSD 9.0 even right now, I have recently created an automount [1] daemon based on FreeBSD's devd(8) daemon and these are filesystems it supports: UFS/FAT/exFAT/NTFS/EXT2/EXT3/EXT4

It needs these ports to mount NTFS/exFAT/EXT4 respectively through FUSE:
-- sysutils/fusefs-ntfs
-- sysutils/fusefs-exfat
-- sysutils/fusefs-ext4fuse

Its even possible to use Linux's LVM under FreeBSD, just type kldload geom_linux_lvm kernel module and check /dev/linux_lvm/ directory.

I use NTFS and exFAT filesystems from time to time on FreeBSD and havent found any problems, it does not crash, files are read/write ok.

[1] https://github.com/vermaden/automount/

BSD doesn't do UDF?

Dunno about other BSDs, but FreeBSD supports UDF: http://man.freebsd.org/mount_udf

[archibald]

OpenBSD supports UDF too: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#foreignfs

[mirix]

EXT4 is fully usable under FreeBSD 9.0 even right now, I have recently created an automount [1] daemon based on FreeBSD's devd(8) daemon and these are filesystems it supports: UFS/FAT/exFAT/NTFS/EXT2/EXT3/EXT4

I have installed automount and has indeed allowed me to mount ext4 partitions, but only as root, though.

This is my /usr/local/etc/automount.conf :

USERUMOUNT="YES"
FM="thunar"
USER="mirix"

Thunar cannot open the display (probably because it is trying as root) and no regular user cannot mount or access the drives. Only root can.

[vermaden]

I have installed automount and has indeed allowed me to mount ext4 partitions, but only as root, though.

What is output of sysctl vfs.usermount on Your system? I have it at '1' to allow user to mount.

About Thunar issue, I assumed that the DISPLAY would be :0.0, maybe its different in Your case (is it different?). I may modify the automount to read that variable dynamically.