On Thursday 18 of October 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> > > >> >The '^' is an escape character and it tells the computer to treat the file as a directory. > >> > >> But what you could do is: write a FUSE fs that mirrors the lower content > >> (lofs/fuseloop/however it was named) and expands .zip files as > >> directories are readdir'ed or the zip files stat'ed. That saves us > >> from cluttering up the Linux VFS with such stuff. > > > >Yes, that's exactly what RheaVFS and AVFS do. Except that they both use an escape > >character because: > >1. without it some programs may break [ http://lwn.net/Articles/100148/ ] > >2. it's very useful to pass additional parameters after the escape char to the server. > > > >We can start VFS servers (mentioned above) and chroot the whole user session into > >the mount directory of the server. It works but it's very slow, practically unusable. > > Sounds like a program bug, since NTFS-3G is proof of concept that FUSE > can be fast. > Good point, I'll look onto it. A minor implementation problem with chrooted environment is that the FUSE VFS server must be run with root privileges to allow setuid programs on the mounted filesystems. But it's certainly doable. -- "Elves and Dragons!" I says to him. "Cabbages and potatoes are better for you and me." -- J. R. R. Tolkien - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
