fuse on 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 kernel

AshVince · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 9 Location: London

I have just updated my kernel to the latest stable version in portage and just discovered there is not even an unstable version of fuse in the portage tree that supports it. This is getting really dull as this might have happened last time I upgraded my kernel as well only I can not remember. So no NTFS-3G for me until someone pulls there finger out and gets another version of fuse out.

Is it not possible that you could start holding back on marking a kernel as stable until fuse and other kernel modules you have to emerge separately are also ready, or at least throwing a warning of some kind when I emerged the kernel-sources.

In the mean time does anybody have any idea how long it will be I can pull down another version of fuse from portage that will support the current stable kernel?

szczerb · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:20 am Post subject:

That's weird. I'm now using 2.6.28-vanilla-rc2 and I didn't have to update sys-fs/fuse-2.7.0 when updating form 2.6.25-tuxonice-r7.

I'm using fusesmb and it works just fine (watching a movie over it right now). Gnome also automounts my ntfs partitions just fine.

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:15 am Post subject:

Fuse support has been in kernel since 2.6.17. I have never had a problem with fuse with any kernel I've run, and that includes some .25 kernels in the past. Click on the link in my sig, and check out the kernel seed for that version. It comes with fuse support already set up.

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irgu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Apr 2003 Posts: 131

ntfs-3g doesn't need fuse user space (by default), only the fuse kernel module.

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject:

It does; however, need to have you install the fuse package...for libfuse and some other stuff.

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tgR10 · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:40 pm Post subject:

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 6:40 am Post subject:

Oh? Then why is the fuse package pulled in as a dependency by ntfs3g? Because libfuse is needed by ntfs3g, unless they have severely redesigned it since I first researched the subject, and started using it.

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tgR10 · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject:

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject:

Well, according to equery, you're right. Oh well, just add this to my list of oopses.

hehehe

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AshVince · n00b Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 9 Location: London

Ok, I did not know that the ntfs-3g package no longer required the fuse from portage and was happy with the one compiled into the kernel, when I installed it originally using the instructions at gentoo-wiki this was not the case. I had tried search google a few times but had found no hits.

I have just discovered however that Gentoo-Wiki is back!! It does not seem to be getting found in google searches at the moment and not all its previous content is available but the site is back up at: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Main_Page

Before your posting your question here, have a look there as I have always found it to be the most useful Gentoo related resource out there.