Re: [coLinux-users] Fuse module support

[Samir K. <sam...@gm...>]

Hi

Thanks for replying. I have no problems building the kernel. I just want to
check whether fuse is a supported configuration? I remember hearing that
cofs has some namespace clashes with fuse?

Regards
Samir

On 5/8/07, Henry Nestler <Hen...@ar...> wrote:
>
> Samir Kuthiala wrote:
> > I have just installed co-linux 0.7.1 (with the debian image). I was
> > wondering whether colinux supports the fuse module as yet? I remember
> > there was some discussion on the mailing list sometime back with the
> > conclusion being that it was not currently supported.
> >
> > If it is, can somebody give me some pointers on how to go about setting
> > it up. Thanks.
>
> Fuse is not supported per default configuration. Check this on your
> running colinux:
>
> $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep FUSE
> # CONFIG_FUSE_FS is not set
> CONFIG_COFUSE_FS=y
>
> The "COFUSE" is the Colinux host filesystem. It's your windows
> partition, you can configure it with "cofs=C:\coLinux" in your config,
> read more in the file COFS.TXT on your coLinux installtion.  This
> cofs-filesystem based on fuse, but this is not the "fuse_fs" for other
> programs.
>
> If you wand to use the real "fuse_fs" then you need to reconfigure the
> kernel and rebuild the modules.
>
> --
> Henry
>