[haiku] Re: mounting BeFS from Linux

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:38:32 +0200

On 2009-09-22 at 12:01:52 [+0200], Pat Berge <bergep@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stephan Assmus wrote:
> > it would be cool, if you could switch your mail client to send 
> > plain-text messages. Your mails only include the HTML.
> >   
> OK I'm using Thunderbird so I picked the "Options--> Format --> Plain 
> Text Only.  It was set to Auto-Detect.

Cool thanks. Much easier to reply now. :-)

> > Regarding your first question, the errors in the befs module are not 
> > within the reach of the Haiku developers, unfortunately.
> >   
> I read in the mailing list Ryan was working on it or was just the mentor 
> for author.

I was the mentor for the BFS FUSE project. Note that this has nothing to do 
with the befs Linux kernel module, which existed for a long time. As far as 
I am aware, none of the Haiku developers were involved in it's creation.

> > I don't think it is 100% safe to say that the BFS code in Haiku doesn't 
> > contain bugs anymore. However, if there are remaining bugs, they are 
> > obviously hard to trigger and thus the problems are most likely 
> > synchronization issues. But BFS FUSE runs single threaded. So, while I 
> > cannot promise this 100%, I judge it highly unlikely that you will run 
> > into problems in this environment for the given reasons.
> > 
> Thanks for your input.

No problem! :-) I assume you already found a HOWTO for getting this to work?

Best regards,
-Stephan

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