> > > > > How old? The out of tree fuse module (hoping to get rid of it soon)
> > > > > works down to 2.6.9. Beyond that it does probably require a fair
> > > > > amount of porting work.
> > > >
> > > > I imagine that backporting FUSE to 2.4 no-mmu will be more work than
> > > > backporting a filesystem, but I could be mistaken. Moving my project
> > > > to a 2.6 kernel (*any* 2.6 kernel) would be much more work than
> > > > either.
> > >
> > > Fuse-2.5 still supported linux-2.4. Although I have no idea if it
> > > works with no-mmu, maybe it's worth a try.
> > >
> > > Backporting ntfs-3g to an older version of fuse shouldn't be a big
> > > problem, as the fuse interface didn't change very much since then.
> >
> > Thanks for your advice. I will look into all these possibilities.
> > Fuse working would be quite useful in many other ways too.
>
> ntfs-3g was reported to work on 2.4 no-mmu kernels six months ago (though
> it had no our QA). Please see
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#kernel24 and
> search for nommu on fuse-devel for the details.