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

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> > >  - 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. :-)

Yes, obviously integrity is the most important thing.  But in theory
you can do

  - after idle (no requests) timeout, disconnect from server

  - on new request, reconnect to server, authenticate user
    (e.g. pop-up window etc.)

  - restore state (if needed, e.g. open files)

> > 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.

Yes, see my reply to Remy.

Miklos