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

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

> > Yeah, it's big.  But it's good to have a _working_ implementation even
> > if some of the details will be changed.
> 
> Well, most of it can be removed, as it is either:
> 
>  - Copies of original files (*.orig)
>  - KDevelop project files
>  - Makefiles (not sure if you can cut this)
> 
> You should be down by about 80% once you clean this out.

Cool.

> But still, could you give me a hint as to what the patch actually
> achieves? Does it allow stacking several filesystems?

Yes, basically you may have an arbitrary stack of filesystems with a
"real" one at the bottom, and each request traverses the stack
downwards and the reply traverses it upwards.

It's useful for filesystems which use another "base" filesystem, like
Encfs.  But it can be just a thin layer, which for example does
charset conversion on file names.

Miklos