Re: (re)fuse mmap

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20080313122854.GA9572%cs.hut.fi@localhost>,
Antti Kantee  <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost> wrote:
>On Thu Mar 13 2008 at 11:26:27 +0200, Mihai Chelaru wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have some filesystems mounted via ntfs-3g/refuse/puffs and I observed some 
>> applications failed to access files on them. Digging a bit I've seen 
>> that 'mmaping' files on these filesystems always fail returning EOPNOTSUPP.
>
>ReFUSE defaults to no kernel cache (like FUSE), but is missing code
>to parse the FUSE "please use cache" option.  Someone should implement
>support for that option and pass the proper flags to puffs.
>
>This will also make executing files from ntfs-3g possible, should anyone
>have run into that problem.

Or loading fonts, since some programs mmap them.

christos