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Re: [ITP] FUSE 2.8


On Jul 22 14:53, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 22/07/2016 14:30, Adrien JUND wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Here is Liryna from Dokan-dev community, our project Dokany have the
> > same purpose of Bill project.
> > Like WinFSP, it is able to mount FUSE filesystem on cygwin before WinFSP exist.
> > 
> > I would like to point out that naming WinFSP package "fuse" is not the
> > right way to integrate WinFSP in cygwin.
> > 
> > The package is not related to fuse developers or community.
> > It would make the user believe that the package is an official fuse
> > project and I am not sure that’s what Nikratio from libfuse would
> > like.
> > The package should be renamed winfsp-fuse for give ability of cygwin
> > users to choose which solution they would like to use. Like
> > dokan-fuse, cbfs-fuse and other projects that offer the same
> > service...
> > All these packages would install their own libfuse for link
> > compatibility that use their own dependency.
> > Fuse name should be kept for official port by libfuse or by a future
> > integration directly compatible with windows kernels.
> 
> winfsp-fuse is a reasonable name.
> dokan-fuse also (IMHO)
> 
> > The official fuse window integration is an official request made by
> > devs on WPDEV. This request is well placed on the top so it is
> > probably only a question of time before windows do it in the same time
> > as the Linux subsystem integration.
> > https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo/suggestions/13522845-add-fuse-filesystem-in-userspace-support-in-wsl
> 
> This seems just a wish for the time being.
> Also our team leader asked for a fork or for more support in
> the implementation of it but MS have never supported it.
> :-(

WSL is it's own subsystem, while Cygwin runs in the Windows subsystem.
So even if MSFT implements it, we probably can't use it.


Corinna

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