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| − | + | emCOREFS is a FUSE-based filesystem that uses emCORE's Monitor API to provide communication with device's FS. It is mostly complete, and works well. It runs on both Linux and Mac OS X. | |
| − | emCOREFS is a FUSE-based filesystem that uses emCORE's Monitor API to provide communication with device's FS. It is | ||
For communication with the device, this application uses libusb 1.0. | For communication with the device, this application uses libusb 1.0. | ||
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You need: | You need: | ||
| − | 1. GCC | + | 1. GCC 4.4 and GNU Make (Xcode on OS X) |
2. pkg-config | 2. pkg-config | ||
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5. all dependencies of the above | 5. all dependencies of the above | ||
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| + | ===Installing needed packages on Ubuntu=== | ||
| + | sudo apt-get install gcc-4.4 make pkg-config libusb-1.0-0-dev libfuse-dev | ||
===Compiling=== | ===Compiling=== | ||
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* Running FUSE with multithreading breaks file reading because of the way these are implemented on emCORE's side. Workaround: use the "-s" option. | * Running FUSE with multithreading breaks file reading because of the way these are implemented on emCORE's side. Workaround: use the "-s" option. | ||
* Most errors are not handled properly, EIO (Input/output error) is given in many cases where there's a more descriptive error message available. Will be fixed in the future. | * Most errors are not handled properly, EIO (Input/output error) is given in many cases where there's a more descriptive error message available. Will be fixed in the future. | ||
| + | * Rename/move in the filesystem itself is currently disabled, since the underlying filesystem call crashes the emCORE kernel. Workaround: move the file/dir on another filesystem, then rename it if needed, then move it back. | ||
==Future plans== | ==Future plans== | ||
Revision as of 00:28, 16 October 2013
emCOREFS is a FUSE-based filesystem that uses emCORE's Monitor API to provide communication with device's FS. It is mostly complete, and works well. It runs on both Linux and Mac OS X.
For communication with the device, this application uses libusb 1.0.
Contents
Building
You need:
1. GCC 4.4 and GNU Make (Xcode on OS X)
2. pkg-config
3. libusb >= 1.0
4. libfuse >= 2.8 (or fuse4x on x64 OS X)
5. all dependencies of the above
Installing needed packages on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.4 make pkg-config libusb-1.0-0-dev libfuse-dev
Compiling
- standard build, no debug messages, only fatal errors on startup are shown.
make
- debug build, some debug/error messages are shown. libusb debug messages are enabled, too.
make debug
You can prefix any of these with
CFLAGS="-DDEBUG_USB_PACKETS"
in order to have a dump of the usb traffic that's being sent and received.
Testing
- run the build without FUSE debugging messages, going into the background if it connects to the device successfully.
make test
- run the build in the foreground, showing FUSE debug messages in the terminal.
make testdebug
Running
You need FUSE >= 2.8 installed. (or fuse4x on x64 OS X)
Currently tested on Linux (Ubuntu 11.04 x86) and Mac OS X (10.6.8 x64).
- Starting:
./emcorefs <mountpoint>
- Stopping:
fusermount -u <mountpoint as seen in /etc/mtab>
Known bugs/issues
- Write support not tested very well.
- Running FUSE with multithreading breaks file reading because of the way these are implemented on emCORE's side. Workaround: use the "-s" option.
- Most errors are not handled properly, EIO (Input/output error) is given in many cases where there's a more descriptive error message available. Will be fixed in the future.
- Rename/move in the filesystem itself is currently disabled, since the underlying filesystem call crashes the emCORE kernel. Workaround: move the file/dir on another filesystem, then rename it if needed, then move it back.
Future plans
- Merge some functions that are doing similar tasks to reduce code duplication. Return proper error codes in FS operations.
Bug reporting
Main developer: Vencislav "user890104" Atanasov
How to contact: Contact
License terms
emCOREFS is distributed under the same license terms as emCORE.
emCORE is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
emCORE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with emCORE. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
