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[PATCH] Add mergerfs/mergerfs-tools

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Message #19 received at 41501-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars <at> 6xq.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>, 41501-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#41501] [PATCH] Add mergerfs/mergerfs-tools
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 19:13:42 +0200

Hi Ludo,

> > +    ;; mergerfs bundles a heavily modified copy of libfuse.
> This is not great.  Did you try building against vanilla libfuse?
no, I looked at the git changelog of their libfuse tree and it appeared
to contain substantial changes, otherwise I would’ve unvendored it.
Judging by the documentation[1] the upstream libfuse is not supported.

Lars

[1] https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs#why-was-libfuse-embedded-into-mergerfs

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