Re: [fuse-devel] can user applications determine the path of a file?

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

2012/4/5 Lars Oliver Hansen <ha...@ib...>:
> Hi,
>
> Let's say a user opens Nautilus to display the content of a directory.
> My filesystem sort of redirects to display the content of another
> directory. Based on the filenames displayed, or other information
> obtained via readdir or similar calls to fuse, can Nautilus determine
> the real directory the files are in? How?

Hi,

my name is Bon, Stef Bon, and want to let you know that this possible
via xattr.

You can introduce a system xattr like:

system.myfs_originalfilepath=...

Futher I do not know a way to export info about the backend in a dynamic way.

Stef