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Date:      Fri, 9 Aug 2019 07:25:19 +0200
From:      Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov@gmail.com>
To:        "Clay Daniels Jr." <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FUSE Call for Testing
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NTFS-3G (sysutils/fusefs-ntfs) is probably the most widely used FUSE
filesystem.

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 4:21 AM Clay Daniels Jr. <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Alan, I'm pretty much into 13.0 Current and most weeks install the newest
> snapshot build. I don't know if I use FUSE or not, if you must know the
> truth. I do some hobby coding, lurk here on the email lists and Forum, and
> try to learn all I can. So do you have any specific suggestions for
> programs to install and test FUSE? I kind of like the no-x console & the
> Xterminal window too, and dabble with clang cc (strictly C, no C++) and
> Python too. Let me know.
>
> Clay Daniels
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 1:36 PM Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > The new FUSE driver has just landed in current. It raises the protocol
> > level from 7.8 to 7.23, fixes many bugs, adds a test suite for the
> > driver, and adds many new features. New features include:
> >   * Optional kernel-side permissions checks (-o default_permissions)
> >   * Implement VOP_MKNOD, VOP_BMAP, and VOP_ADVLOCK
> >   * Allow interrupting FUSE operations
> >   * Support named pipes and unix-domain sockets in fusefs file systems
> >   * Forward UTIME_NOW during utimensat(2) to the daemon
> >   * kqueue support for /dev/fuse
> >   * Allow updating mounts with "mount -u"
> >   * Allow exporting fusefs file systems over NFS
> >   * Server-initiated invalidation of the name cache or data cache
> >   * Respect RLIMIT_FSIZE
> >   * Try to support servers as old as protocol 7.4
> >
> >   Performance enhancements include:
> >
> >   * Implement FUSE's FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE and FUSE_ASYNC_READ flags
> >   * Cache file attributes
> >   * Cache lookup entries, both positive and negative
> >   * Server-selectable cache modes: writethrough, writeback, or uncached
> >   * Write clustering
> >   * Readahead
> >   * Use counter(9) for statistical reporting
> >
> > Now would be a good time for the community to test it.  If you are
> > BCCed to this email, it's because you maintain a FUSE-related port.
> > Please test your port on the latest FreeBSD CURRENT image and let me
> > know if you have any problems or find any bugs.
> >
> > Even if you don't maintain a FUSE port, you can still help.  If you
> > use current and commonly use any FUSE file systems, please try them
> > out after upgrading to the latest image.
> >
> > Additionally, the following FUSE-related ports don't have maintainers.
> > If you use one of them, or know somebody who does, please test them on
> > current, and consider adopting the port:
> > deskutils/kdeconnect-kde
> > devel/gvfs
> > devel/py-fusefs
> > sysutils/fusefs-afuse
> > sysutils/fusefs-chironfs
> > sysutils/fusefs-cryptofs
> > sysutils/fusefs-funionfs
> > sysutils/fusefs-fusepak
> > sysutils/fusefs-httpfs
> > sysutils/fusefs-s3backer
> > sysutils/fusefs-sqlfs
> > sysutils/fusefs-zip
> > sysutils/p5-Brackup
> > sysutils/p5-Fuse
> >
> > VM images:
> >
> http://ftp0.nyi.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/VM-IMAGES/13.0-CURRENT/amd64/20190808/
> > ISOs: http://ftp0.nyi.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/
> >
> > Thanks for any feedback you can give!
> > -Alan
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