Re: [fuse-devel] Mounting a non-root file system using fuse.

[Matthew F. <mat...@ga...>]

Prasad Joshi wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am new in the fuse file system development. I went through the standard
> fuse examples to understand the working of the fuse developed file system.
> 
> But when I run fusexmp it always mounts the root on to mount point. Is not
> there any way to mount a non-root file system.

fusexmp is just a demo.  It is not meant to be useful code.  You can
clearly see from xmp_getattr that fuse will always just provide the info
for the root filesystem.  It's hard-coded, by design.  That's what:

res = lstat(path, stbuf);

does.

> So just wanted to know can not I mount a non / FS on a mmount point using
> fuse?

That's not what FUSE is for.  You can do that with just:

sudo mount --bind /realdir /mnt_point

This doesn't even use FUSE.  Telling us your objective (if any) will let
us point you in the right direction.

Matt Flaschen