From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYPKb-0000ij-LH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:01:21 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYPKW-0000fc-Ck for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:01:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47572 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYPKW-0000fW-0F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:01:16 -0400 Received: from ag-out-0708.google.com ([72.14.246.240]:36071) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KYPKV-0004Il-IE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:01:15 -0400 Received: by ag-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id 31so7137629agc.5 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48B5963B.9000906@codemonkey.ws> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:00:27 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel][PATCH] qemu-fuse References: <48B580B5.8030804@codemonkey.ws> <20080827170228.GG3644@pintsize> In-Reply-To: <20080827170228.GG3644@pintsize> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Luca Bigliardi wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:28 AM, 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. >> > > 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. Why don't you like qemu-nbd? FWIW, I'm open to fuse but I don't think we should have both an NBD server and a fuse filesystem. I think we should try and have a single mechanism to access guest images. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Thank you, > > luca > >