On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 8:30 AM, Antonio SJ Musumeci wrote:
> My users span several generations of Debian (and other) Linux distributions.
> Early 2.9.X versions of libfuse had bugs which led to "random" crashes.
> These versions are still in wide use (I get 2.8.x users on occasion too).
> Over pas
On Aug 07 2017, Antonio SJ Musumeci wrote:
[libfuse]
> There are secondary issues related to v2 being no longer maintained
What makes you think so? I'm not adding new features, but it's
definitely still being maintained.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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I'm not sure that Ritesh did a good job of explaining why I've embedded
libfuse2 into mergerfs.
My users span several generations of Debian (and other) Linux
distributions. Early 2.9.X versions of libfuse had bugs which led to
"random" crashes. These versions are still in wide use (I get 2.8.x use
On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 10:32 +0200, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> On Aug 07 2017, Ben Finney wrote:
> > By your description, the upstream code doesn't do that. One obvious
> > workaround is to remove the embedded library in the Debian
> > ‘mergerfs’
> > package ‘clean’ target, patch the software to instea
On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 16:43 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Any advise on what should be our take further ?
>
> You have correctly identified that the embedded library should not be
> used in Debian, and instead the Debian ‘mergerfs’ package should use
> only the first-class Debian ‘libfuse’ package.
On Aug 07 2017, Ben Finney wrote:
> By your description, the upstream code doesn't do that. One obvious
> workaround is to remove the embedded library in the Debian ‘mergerfs’
> package ‘clean’ target, patch the software to instead use Debian's
> packaged ‘libfuse’ library, and maintain that patch
Ritesh Raj Sarraf writes:
> To quote upstream:
> It embeds libfuse because:
>
> I support many old platforms which use old and buggy versions of
> libfuse. Embedding it keeps many of my users who don't know and don't
> care to know how to update their systems from having to learn to build
> libfu
mergerfs is a fuse based file system, similar in functionality to aufs
and overlayfs.
Since version 2.22.0, mergerfs is embedding the libfuse2 library in its
source repo. Details can be seen in this bug report upstream at Github:
https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs/issues/431
So far upstream has
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