Re: [fuse-devel] fusexmp hangs.. wont die

[Russ W. <rw...@gm...>]

My understanding is, the lowlevel API closely mirrors the VFS API.
Use it if you want to deal with inodes rather than pathnames.

Russ

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Jojy Varghese<joj...@gm...> wrote:
> I will try that. For now I have resorted to changing my Kernel :).
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Another question was what is fuse low level API? When should I be using
> them? Maybe i should post this question in a different thread.
>
> -GV
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Russ Weeks <rw...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, GV
>>
>> Have you tried building and running fusexmp from fuse-2.7.4?  That
>> might be more compatible with your kernel.  I think there's
>> kernel<->library version checking built into FUSE, but maybe it's not
>> 100%.
>>
>> Russ
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:25 AM, <joj...@gm...> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> > I am just new to FUSE and as a first step, I tried running the
>> > example "fusexmp". Unfortunately it hangs and I am unable to kill it.
>> > These
>> > are the steps I did:
>> >
>> >
>> > 1. I am running 2.6.18-8.el5PAE #1 SMP kernel. The kernel didnt have
>> > fuse.ko module. So I had to get the kernel source to build the fuse
>> > module.
>> > 2. Since I couldnt get hold of the source code for PAE version of the
>> > kernel, I downloaded 2.6.18-8 from kernel.org and built fuse module
>> > and "insmod" ed it.
>> > 3. Built the fuse 2.8.0 source tar ball (which built the examples also
>> > by
>> > default)
>> > 4. Created /mnt/fuse directory
>> > 5. Ran examples/fusexmp /mnt/fuse -d
>> >
>> > It just sits there doing nothing. When i type mount command, it doesnt
>> > show
>> > the fuse filesystem mounted. Also, i can not seem to kill the
>> > process(Yes
>> > used kill, kill -9 etc etc)
>> >
>> > Any help is much appreciated.
>> >
>> > thanks
>> > -GV
>> >
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