Comments on: DragonFly 4.0 released!

By: John

John — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:39:20 +0000

DragonFly has puffs. It’s just not stable. Nobody cares, nobody is working on it. I woudn’t mind removing it, frankly.

I’m not impressed with FreeBSD FUSE either. None of the fuse ports have maintainers, nobody answers FUSE filesystem bugs, and I don’t think anyone is even designed to fix fuse kernel issues.

puffs/fuse — interesting idea, but ultimately a failure. I guess people will need another way to ready ntfs or exfat. Apparently it’s not an pressing issue for the masses.

By: BSDfan

BSDfan — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 13:16:31 +0000

PUFFS is NetBSD specific. OpenBSD has FUSE support from 5.4 version and DragonFly is the last from BSD family which doesn’t have working FUSE support. IMHO this is very important feature for desktop usage. Possibility for reading and writing HDD/SSD/flash drives formatted with NTFS or exFAT filesystems would be very handy. Second feature IMHO would be support for newer UDF format (NetBSD has the best support for this).
So, does anyone know if someone is working on this to fix it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:58:03 +0000

I thought PUFFS was OpenBSD specific.

By: John

John — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 13:47:29 +0000

puffs doesn’t actually work and all these ports needs libfuse port which won’t build (and probably wouldn’t work right if it did)

By: BSDfan

BSDfan — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:07:42 +0000

Oh, I see.
However I always thought that DragonFly supports these filesystems via PUFFS.

By: John

John — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:34:16 +0000

broken? no, it never existed.

By: BSDfan

BSDfan — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:35:18 +0000

Is support for FUSE broken in DragonFly?
I don’t see any FUSE (ntfs-3g, exfat, etc) packages in dports.