[fuse-devel] Handle special fuse handlers or modules per directory.

[Stef B. <st...@gm...>]

Hello,

My fs is basically an overlay fs.

The direectory to overlay is a parameter:

--bind-directory=

So for example:

fuse-workspace-ll --bind-directory=/var/lib/workspace/sbon/bind
/home/sbon/Workspace

will mirror the contents in /var/lib/workspace/sbon/bind to
/home/sbon/Workspace.

Now my fs is using the automounter to mount resources. So these mounts
you can name "external", because my fs
does not do the mounting. I'm using this construction also to mount
archives using for example archivemount.
The automounter will then call via a wrapper the mount command
archivemount to access an archive. Archivemount is itself a fuse fs.

I'm wondering, is it possible to use these typical functions in my
overlay fs in some directory, specially created for archives.

For example:

/var/lib/workspace/sbon/bind/Archives/linux-2.6.35.7.tar.bz2

shows the contents of the archive linux source

/home/sbon/Download/linux-2.6.35.7.tar.bz2

There is some configuration necessary to make my fs aware to "take"
the right archive (in this case the linux kernel source at
/home/sbon/Download), but my question is now is it possible to use
specific modules per directory, so some dynamically use of modules or
something.

I'm thinking on webdav and archives to begin with.

Somebody has idea's and/or experience??

Stef Bon