id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	field_blocks	field_dependson	field_seealso
54	VFS to FUSE connector	Martin Decky		"Implement a connector between the HelenOS VFS server and FUSE. 

 Details::
 The VFS-to-FUSE connector should act as an endpoint file system server task which plugs itself into the HelenOS VFS framework and implements the VFS output protocol, and also interface with or mimic the libfuse library. The individual FUSE file system implementation can either directly link to the connector or run as a separate server task.

 What Gains and Benefits will this bring?::
 This should allow us to add a lot of file system implementations just by porting them from other systems with FUSE support.

 Difficulty::
 medium

 Required skills::
 A successful applicant will have good skills of programming in the C language and also the ability to program in a multi-server environment, which includes communicating using HelenOS IPC.

 Documentation::
 - [wiki:FSDesign Implementation and design of the file system layer]
 - [http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ FUSE: Filesystem in Userspace]
 - [wiki:IPC IPC for Dummies]

 Possible mentors::
 HelenOS Core Team, Jakub Jermar"	enhancement	new	minor		fs/other	mainline		suggestion, gsoc