SOC2009TatsianaSeveryna [FreeBSD WIKI]

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====== puffs port for FreeBSD ======

Currently %%FreeBSD%% has limited support for userlevel file systems with
fuse port (ports/sysutils/fusefs-libs) and kernel module
(ports/sysutils/fusefs-kmod). fusefs-libs is GPL licensed and can't be
imported into base system which limits is usability. fusefs-kmod is
kernel driver implementing fuse kernel-userlevel interface. VFS
implementations Linux and %%FreeBSD%% have differ a lot, thus making
kernel driver complicated. Because of such VFS divergence there are
some known drawbacks which can't be easily fixed (consider ntfs-3g
"file not found" and EAGAIN errors arising because of vnode reuse).

I'm working on porting puffs (Pass-to-Userspace Framework File system) from
%%NetBSD%%. puffs was developed during Google Summer of Code 2005 and has
proven reasonably stable since then. There is also a librefuse wrapper
for puffs providing source level compatibility with fuse.

===== Milestones =====

  * May 23 - June 14. Port putter driver. Make kenel level and user level part compile (probably keep some functionality disabled). 
  * June 15 - June 31. Have functional puffs port (kernel level and libpuffs).
  * Jule 1 - Jule 19.  Port psshfs
  * Jule 20 - August 10. Port librefuse