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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:59:09 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel][PATCH] qemu-fuse
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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

> > >I'm sorry, why you don't like to pass '-o allow_root' to fuse_main() from
> > >your application ?
> > >  
> > 
> > It also requires user_allow_root to be specified in /etc/fuse.conf.

You need root access to use qemu-nbd (to mount it), and if you mount
as root you don't need to modify /etc/fuse.conf, so they're equivalent
in this regard.

> Well qemu-nbd also allows sharing to remote machines, whereas fuse
> only exposes it locally. qemu-nbd also allows access to things which
> aren't filesystems. eg, you could have LVM / software RAID devices
> inside your qcow file - qemu-fuse won't help you get access to those.

Yes, qemu-nbd lets you use all the kernel filesystems, different
partition formats, RAID, encryption etc.

-- Jamie