Project Health status

[alberto coletti]

Hello to all,

I'm new on this project and In the project home I foud the last release was about 1 year ago,

So I' dlike to know if the project is healty:

I mean still developed and supprtoed.

Thanks,

Alberto Coletti

[William Levra-Juillet]

Hi Alberto,

We use Dokan in a production tool(s).

Dokan is not maintained/developed for a long time.

Despite a lot of efforts, it is still very unstable, and we've decided to go with a different solution.

I'd say it's the opposite of "healthy" :(

Just saying...

Hope it helps

William

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[Frediano Ziglio]

Hi William,

  which solution are you using? Why is unstable? Why not sending some patches?

Frediano

2013/12/3 William Levra-Juillet <wil...@gmail.com>

[William Levra-Juillet]

We've branched our own code from original Dokan 0.6 like 18 months ago.

Since then, using Dokan has been a nightmare.

Probably one of the worst decision we've made.

Lots of crashes (bsod kernel side, and stack/heap corruption usermode/dll side).

Trying to fix/patch the driver is a bit of gambling.

If you closely look at the code, it kind of work by luck at the moment!

Most of the variables are uninitalized, kernel objects are used, but never intialized/unintialized.

It doesn't support sharing the mapped drive, it doesn't show up in procmon, etc...

It's cool if you want to do some quick r&d and prototyping.

But for a professional/production apps, not worth it.

That reflects my opinion only.

It might for work for you, I can't say.

[Daniel Demus]

To re-iterate the original question: Which solution are you using instead?

Regards,
Daniel Demus

[William Levra-Juillet]

Hi,

We've decided to go with CbFS from Eldos:

https://www.eldos.com/cbfs/

You can evaluate the product for free.

Note that I'm NOT IN ANY WAYS rerlated to Eldos.

[Enzo Lombardi]

As an alternative, I suggest to take a look to http://www.eterlogic.com/Products.VirtualDriveSDK.html

They have a free license for non commercial purposes as well.

PS: I am not related/affiliated with Eterlogic.

[Frediano Ziglio]

Thanks for the link. However VirtualDriveSDK allow you to write a userspace block device while dokan/cbfs allow you to write a filesystem.

Frediano Ziglio

[Matheus Santana]

Did anyone successfully contacted the original developer?
win-sshfs also appears to be abandoned :/

both projects could have been game changers - killing SMB and FTP at once...

[שאול פרידמן‎]

For the best of my knowledge the dev of Dokan moved to Call Back File System (https://www.eldos.com/cbfs)

Its actually have the same interface as Dokan.

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