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Project name : Porting OSXFuse (modified) in %%FreeBSD%%

Student: [[/NeerajRawat|NeerajRawat]] (neerajrawat@%%FreeBSD%%.org,neerajrawat2011@gmail.com)

Mentor: [[/PedroGiffuni|PedroGiffuni]]

Project description :

1. OSXFuse package is used for mounting file system in %%MacOS%% only.

2. This project is to convert/modify OSXFuse so that it could run in %%FreeBSD%%. And with the help of Fuse we could mount the file system in %%FreeBSD%% using OSXFuse

3. File System is called XFS File System.

Approach to solving the problem

I started with building subpackages of OSXFuse. In this way i figure out where and what modification it required for that particular package. Modifications are like, removing C header files/libraries which are not available in %%FreeBSD%%.
including libraries in which performs the same task but have different name. for example , we have glibtoolize command in %%MacOS%%, but in %%FreeBSD%% it is libtoolize.
We have -losxfuse library in %%MacOS%% which is required to build Fuse code. but in %%FreeBSD%% it is replaced with -lfuse.

Changes are made in Makefile also. So that code could build perfectly. For example, ln command are replaced by cp command somewhere.

There is a sub package of OSXFuse called macosx , it will be removed from OSXFuse (%%FreeBSD%% Version).

Old header files are removed from the code, updated header files are added. for example, utmp.h replaced with utmpx.h , libc.h replaced with libproc.h

Deliverables

OSXFuse woulb be able to run in %%FreeBSD%% with the help of Fuse library.

Milestones

June 17 - June 30 : building %%FreeBSD%% code with modified kernel, and checking whether it is building fine

July 2-July 29: OSXFuse (%%MacOS%%) to Fusexfs (%%FreeBSD%%)

Till September 23: Kernel API 7.13 , DTrace

The Code

( https://github.com/neerajrawat/freebsd )

( https://github.com/neerajrawat/fusexfs )

Useful links

( https://github.com/neerajrawat/fusexfs )