Re: FUSE merging?

Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-09-03T15:01:56Z

On 9/3/05, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> > While FUSE doesn't handle it directly, doesn't it have to punt it to
> > its network file systems, how to the sshfs and what not handle this
> > sort of mapping?
>
> Sshfs handles it by not handling it. In this case it is neither
> possible, nor needed to be able to correctly map the id space.
>
> Yes, it may confuse the user. It may even confuse the kernel for
> sticky directories(*). But basically it just works, and is very
> simple.
>

In principal, Plan 9 file servers handle permission checking
server-side, so we could likewise punt -- but it seemed a good idea to
have some form of mapping for directory listings (and things like
sticky directories) to make sense.

-eric