Hi,
I've done this now and integrated it into ntfs-3g. Everything seems to work
fine so far. Uclibc wasn't tested yet. I was a bit off with the one kB
saving estimate. So far it's almost 20 kB (20% of libfuse). More later.
Szaka
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>
> > > But if these configurations are unsupported, please state so clearly
> > > on your site and documentation. So users will not try to go against
> > > you... Maybe fuse-lite project will emerge and ntfs-3g will migrate to
> > > this one to keep up with its userbase.
> >
> > You say this as if that would be a bad thing. I think a fuse-lite
> > project would be a _great_ thing, honestly.
>
> I can confirm this, we have discussed this in the past.
>
> For the short term, it seems this would be very beneficial shorten ntfs-3g
> release cycles and guarantee better quality with higher user satisfaction
> (e.g. no need to test/support old libfuse versions, the ntfs-3g QA runs
> almost a week non-stop on some embedded devices testing with just one fuse
> version).
>
> Basically the needed code could be source imported and statically linked,
> just like several widely used softwares do with gnulib. So there would be
> no external, runtime dependency at all on FUSE user space.
>
> The ntfs-3g team would happily take such patch provided if it's optional:
> the driver should still work with the offical FUSE releases if one wants
> to. I.e. the required API compatibility is kept.
>
> Alon, please note that FUSE and ntfs-3g works fine with uclibc if symvers
> are eliminated. I'm not the only one who use it all the time. The only
> problems (minus the /bin/mount -i compatibility problem) I have met on this
> area were all due to them and the incorrect patches users cooked up.
>
> Szaka
>
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