Re: [fuse-devel] PATCH: Unmount on inactivity (2)

[Valient G. <va...@gm...>]

On 6/12/06, Miklos Szeredi <mi...@sz...> wrote:
> >  - encfs already provides this feature, to unmount an encrypted
> > filesystem if it isn't used (for security purposes). This avoids having
> > to remember unmounting it e.g. before leaving my laptop.
>
> This makes some sense, although the security aspect is not entirely
> satisfied, since open files or CWD within the mount will defeat
> unmounting.

Sure, but avoiding data loss was chosen as the highest priority.
After all, if data gets lost, then my email volume goes up. :-)

> Right.  What I recommend, is that we wait a bit with adding this to
> the library, to see if people find it useful, and possibly until a
> stacking infrastructure is added to libfuse.

Is someone working on a stacking infrastructure?  I seem to remember
some mail about it, but it also seems like that was a long time ago.

regards,
Valient