[fuse-devel] fuse mount point as a /home dir - possible?

[Tomasz C. <ma...@wp...>]

I just used my first FUSE filesystem - LZOlayer_fs.

It's a compressed filesystem that I'm going to use on an embedded system 
as a homedir for users.

What I noticed however, is that it seems impossible to use a fuse mount 
point for more users, i.e., all files created in such a mount point are 
always owned by one user.

An example:

We mount fuse/LZOlayer and go to the mount point:

root# ./lzo_fs -s -o allow_other /mnt/fuse
root# cd /mnt/fuse
root# mkdir test
root# chmod 1777 test



tch$ cd /mnt/fuse/test
tch$ mkdir test_dir

$ ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jan 26 22:24 test_dir/

Unfortunately, "test_dir" created by "tch" user is owned by "root".
On a normal filesystem I would expect it to be owned by "tch".

Because of this, I can't really use such a filesystem for /home, as all 
files will be owned by root, and not the users.


Can I somehow mount a fuse filesystem in a way, that all 
files/directories in it created by users will have their uids/gids?

I tried using different mount options, without luck.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org