pkgsrc/filesystems/fuse/MESSAGE.Linux
manu db9a921ee0 Update FUSE to 2.8.4 and add NetBSD support through filesystems/perfuse
Changes since previous verion, from the NEWS file

2.8.x:
- More scalable directory tree locking
- Atomic open(O_TRUNC) support
- Support big write requests on kernels 2.6.26 and newer
- Out-of-tree fuse module removed
- Better NFS exporting support
- New ioctl and poll requests
- New CUSE (Character Device in Userspace) interface
- Allow umask processing in userspace
- Added cache invalidation notifications
- Bugfixes and small improvements
2.7.x:
 - Stacking support for the high level API
 - Add filename charset conversion module
 - Improved mounting
2.6.x!
 - Improved read characteristics (asynchronous reads)
 - Support for aborting filesystem connection
 - POSIX file locking support
 - Request interruption support
 - Building module for Linux kernels earlier than 2.6.9 not supported
 - Allow block device based filesystems to support swap files
 - Several bugs fixed, including a rare system hang on SMP
2010-08-25 08:02:21 +00:00

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$NetBSD: MESSAGE.Linux,v 1.1 2010/08/25 08:02:21 manu Exp $
Linux users must create the device by typing:
$ mknod /dev/fuse -m 0666 c 10 229
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