Bug#402876: [fuse-devel] FUSE not working on ARM? Hangs during stat64

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:24:56AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> [2006-12-20 19:37]:
> > > We at Debian received the following bug report saying that FUSE is not
> > > working on ARM.  I've verified this on two ARM platforms (IXP4xx and
> > > IOP32x) and also checked that it's working fine on MIPS.  The problem
> > > seems that it hangs in stat64.
> > 
> > Can you please try the out-of-tree kernel module from the fuse-2.6.x
> > package (use 'configure --enable-kernel-module).  That contains a
> > workaround for a bug in the ARM architecture code.
> > 
> > If this fixes the problem for you, then I would advise you to remind
> > the ARM maintainer (Russel King) about this issue.
> 
> The bug reporter confirms that it works with the modules from the
> fuse-2.6.1 package.  Russell, have you addressed this problem recently
> or is this still an open issue?  I've only tried 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 so
> far, nothing newer.  If there's a fix available, I can put it in
> Debian's 2.6.18 package that will ship with our next release.

This is the first I've heard of a problem.

What _exactly_ is the problem and can you provide a test case or
instructions to reproduce it?

-- 
Russell King