Re: [fuse-devel] is it possible to use fuse with a linux loopback device?

[Fuse U. <fus...@gm...>]

2008/3/8, Miklos Szeredi <mi...@sz...>:
>
> > I'm using fusexmp_fh with a subdirectory. When I create files and
> > directories in the mountpoint, their copies are stored in my
> subdirectory.
> > Now, I want the files/folders in the subdirectory to become a single
> file
> > when I unmount the fusexmp_fh partition. When I search a bit, I saw
> there is
> > loopback device in Linux. Thus, I wondered that whether it is possible
> to
> > use fusexmp_fh with a loopback device.
>
>
> Loop makes a device from a file, fusexmp_fh makes a directory from a
> directory.  You can't combine those in any meaningful way.
>
> Why do you want to use fuse at all?  If your goal is just to create a
> filesystem image, then why not do that?



I have to use fusexmp_fh, because I'm writting my homework which is built on
fusexmp_fh. Is there certainly no way to combine loopback and fusexmp_fh?

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/myfs bs=1048576 count=100
>   mke2fs -F -j /tmp/myfs
>   mount -oloop /tmp/myfs /mnt
>
>
> Miklos
>


Moreover, how uid and gid options of fuse can be used? I'm using it
"-ouid=500 -ogid=10" but it does not work. I had asked this question before.

Thanks.