[Avf-fuse-dev] fuse fs won't mount at boot time.

[Guillaume P. <gpo...@gm...>]

Hi, I'm trying to use fusesmb, which is a fuse fs that permits to
browse an smb network. I would like it to be mounted at boot. I
thought of two solutions:
1. Add an entry to fstab. When the fs is mounted, mtab reports this entry:
/proc/fs/fuse/dev on /mnt/smb type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev)
So I thought that I could mount the fs as any other fs, but it fails:

localhost root # mount -t fuse /proc/fs/fuse/dev /mnt/smb
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /proc/fs/fuse/dev,
       or too many mounted file systems

Is this supposed to work anyway?

2. As the previous solution fails, I thought I could write a simple
initscript that would  implemente a fusesmb service.
First of all, here are the commands I use to manually mount/unmount the fs:
fusermount -x /mnt/smb fusesmb
fusermount -u /mnt/smb

These commands work allright apart from a minor glitch that I will
explain in another post.
So I created a simple script in /etc/init.d:

--------------------------
localhost root # cat /etc/init.d/fusesmb
#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

depend() {
need localmount
need net
}

checkconfig() {
if [ ! -e /proc/fs/fuse/dev ] ; then
 eerror "Fuse module not loaded"
 return 1
fi
}

start() {
checkconfig || return 1
USER=`whoami`
ebegin "Starting fusesmb as "$USER
/usr/local/bin/fusermount -x /mnt/smb /usr/local/bin/fusesmb &
eend $?
}

stop() {
ebegin "Stopping fusesmb"
/usr/local/bin/fusermount -u /mnt/smb
eend $?
}
----------------------------

If i'm logged in as root and start the service manually, it works all right:
----------------------------
localhost root # ls /mnt/smb
localhost root # /etc/init.d/fusesmb start
 * Starting fusesmb as root...                                        
    [ ok ]
localhost root # ls /mnt/smb
MDKGROUP
localhost root #
----------------------------
In this snippet, the service is initially stopped, so ls gives no
result. Then I start the service, and now ls shows me the only
workgroup I have in my network.

But if I setup the rc scripts to start the service at boot, the
service seems to start allright, mtab reports the fuse fs, there are 3
fusesmb processes running, but ls produces an error:
--------------------------
localhost root # ls /mnt/smb
ls: /mnt/smb: No such file or directory
--------------------------

If I manually restart the service, it works normally. At boot the
service starts after /proc is mounted and after the network is
started. Does fuse use any environment variable that might not be set
before I get the shell?
Does anybody have an idea as to why I experience this problem?

I'm using fuse 1.3, with kernel 2.6.7, gentoo

Guillaume