Re: [fuse-devel] Newbie: Attempting a new file system

[Gordon W. <gor...@gm...>]

Are you trying to create a filter like filesystem that is mounted over
it's own backing volume? So operations on files in /tmp/fuse will go
to your filesystem which is attempting to pass them on to the files
that were accessible in /tmp/fuse before your file system was mounted?

If so there is some special magic that needs to be done to seperate
the two contexts, I believe this setup has been discussed on the list
before but I don't recall if it was found to be possible and if so how
it was done.

On 11/30/06, Fareha Shafique <fa...@ee...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After playing around with fuse for a bit, I'm trying to use it to
> develop a copy-on-write filesystem. The first problem I'm running into
> is that I use "/tmp/fuse/ " as the mount point, and I want a stat of "/"
> to stat the root of my new file system, i.e. /tmp/fuse/, but for some
> reason the stat never returns and fuse tries a getattr again until
> eventually after 375 getattr's it says that it can't create anymore
> threads and everything just hangs. Can FUSE not stat it's mount point?
> How can I make it do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Fareha
>
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