Re: loop devices removable

[Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Pablo Barbáchano wrote:
>  --- Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de> escribió:
> > Pablo Barbachano <pablobarbachano@yahoo.es> wrote:

> > [loop devices]
> > 
> > > The (probably broken) reason I want to do that is so I can use (my
> > > modified) pmount to mount them.
> > 
> > I'm wondering if fuse would be suited better. I did not yet experiment
> > with that, but it seems it has everything you need.
> 
> There is something based on FUSE:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/173617/
> 
> Which involves UML... doesn't seem a good option to me...

I just tried it out, and fuse/uml seems it works out-of-the-box (using a
simple mount-like command) while preventing the user from crashing the
kernel "using" a corrupt fs image. If you rename the mountlo program to 
"mount" and put it un the user's path, they won't notice they're using 
fuse at all, except for not honoring fstab. (Off cause /sbin must come 
before /usr/local/bin in root's path!)

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