From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYPK2-0000SI-4m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:00:46 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYPK0-0000RN-7t for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:00:44 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54508 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYPK0-0000RK-1R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:00:44 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:47605) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KYPJz-00042u-4H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:00:43 -0400 Received: from jamie by mail2.shareable.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KYPJu-0007UR-LE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:00:38 +0100 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:00:38 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel][PATCH] qemu-fuse Message-ID: <20080827180038.GB27491@shareable.org> References: <48B580B5.8030804@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48B580B5.8030804@codemonkey.ws> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Anthony Liguori wrote: > 1) disable the root readable limitation in fuse, this has to be done > globally and I suspect is unlikely to be done by distros. Can't you read even if you do the whole fuse setup as root (including real user-id etc.)? If that's a real problem with fuse in some applications, I'm surprised there isn't at least an option, available only to root, to relax it. Or maybe they just don't know about this scenario, and a fix would be welcome... > So that's why I settled on qemu-nbd. Yeah, it's a really nice idea, thank you :-) A FUSE-style "userspace block device" which doesn't require any root access would be nice in principle, but qemu-nbd does the job and doesn't require any add-ons. -- Jamie