As I want to replace PC Samba servers (in small offices) with OpenWRT (on ASUS Deluxe), I thought it would be economically viable to use some sort of a compressed filesystem on an external USB stick.

Since there is none "native" compressed filesystem for Linux (besides jffs2 for flash/mtd), I thought I would try with some of the FUSE "compressed" filesystems.

There are three FUSE "compressed" filesystem, I can't compile any of them for OpenWRT.

The compilation breaks for all of them with 'error: parse error before "fuse_fill_dir_t"' (see below - failed compilation of CompFUSEd from http://parallel.vub.ac.be/~johan/compFUSEd/ ).

Has anyone any experience with FUSE on OpenWRT, an perhaps can point what is wrong?

# make
/home/data/wrt54/svn/white/openwrt/staging_dir_mipsel/mipsel-linux-uclibc/bin/gcc -o cf_main cf_main.c cf_file.o cf_map.o cf_config.o cf_compression.o cf_log.o -g  -Wall -g -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -lfuse -lz -llzo -lbz2
cf_main.c:119: error: parse error before "fuse_fill_dir_t"
cf_main.c: In function `cf_readdir':
cf_main.c:122: error: `fi' undeclared (first use in this function)
cf_main.c:122: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
cf_main.c:122: error: for each function it appears in.)
(...)

I have compiled and used owfs with success. (which use fuse)
Look at the compilation flags etc. that I have used for owfs. It might also help if you install my fuse-package 2.4.1 which should work very good.

I think you have some problem with compFUSEd required fuse-version.

You find my packages and sources at:
http://home.mag.cx/openwrt/packages/
http://home.mag.cx/openwrt/source/

/Christian

It appeared that compFUSEd needs fuse 2.4.1, and the one shipped with whiterussian is 2.2.1.

After compiling newer fuse I was able to get this to work.