From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Jeff Dike Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [Announce] mountlo 0.5 - Loopback mounting in userspace Message-ID: <20060227170826.GA5481@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:08:26 -0500 To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:10:38PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > I'm proud to announce a new version of my pet project 'mountlo', a > utility which works similarly to 'mount -o loop', but the filesystem > runs entirely in userspace. > > While arguably it is quite useless, I like it because it combines some > of my favorite technologies (Linux, UML and FUSE) with very little > additional glue code. Very cute. I'm in the process of doing something similar, except I'm integrating a FUSE server into the UML kernel to export the UML filesystem to the host. So far, I can cd and ls inside the mount - lookup and readdir are implemented. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751501AbWB0RHi (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:07:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751502AbWB0RHi (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:07:38 -0500 Received: from [198.99.130.12] ([198.99.130.12]:47068 "EHLO saraswathi.solana.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751501AbWB0RHh (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:07:37 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:08:26 -0500 From: Jeff Dike To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [Announce] mountlo 0.5 - Loopback mounting in userspace Message-ID: <20060227170826.GA5481@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:10:38PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > I'm proud to announce a new version of my pet project 'mountlo', a > utility which works similarly to 'mount -o loop', but the filesystem > runs entirely in userspace. > > While arguably it is quite useless, I like it because it combines some > of my favorite technologies (Linux, UML and FUSE) with very little > additional glue code. Very cute. I'm in the process of doing something similar, except I'm integrating a FUSE server into the UML kernel to export the UML filesystem to the host. So far, I can cd and ls inside the mount - lookup and readdir are implemented. Jeff