Questions tagged [fuse]
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a loadable kernel module for Unix-like operating systems to make it possible to create userland filesystems, e.g. ntfs-3g.
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Posix filesystem features overlay [duplicate]
I have a remote system where I can create only files and directories. No symlinks, ACLs, hard links, devices, nothing.
I think, it would be really useful to be able to use it even as a linux root ...
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Need option to prevent SSHFS from changing server's file modification date on download(!)
SSHFS changes modification date (not access date) of server files on download(!). Is there an option/setting to prevent that?
The problems this causes include:
after the next download, you can't sort ...
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systemd .mount for FUSE fs via executable (or waiting for transient mount)
I have a Python script that utilizes FUSE bindings to create a FUSE filesystem. I would like to run the script automatically via systemd and have other units wait until the mount is created.
I can ...
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bindfs: Can remounting with new mapping cause side-effects?
I want to create a ansible role that creates some bindfs-mounts and map those to a bunch of users.
Now those users can change. And this is why I cannot check, whether the mount already exists and then ...
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FUSE in rootless, unprivileged podman
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Is adding CAP_SYS_ADMIN still the only way to get fuse working inside a rootless container (with either native overlay or fuse-overlayfs/other methods)?
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Podman in podman
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Is there a FUSE-based caching solution for selective prefetching from a remote filesystem?
I am working with a remote parallel file system (CephFS), mounted at /mnt/mycephfs/, which contains a large dataset of small files (200 GB+). My application trains on these files, but reading directly ...
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How can I secure unencrypted credential files, for programs that assume them (like gmi/lieer)?
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Q: How can I cryptographically secure a credentials file that is stored on disk as plaintext?
Or, rather: how can I avoid storing credentials like those for Gmail and other API keys on disk? ...
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OverlayFS for User writing changes to root-owned directory
I am trying to give all Users on a system their own writable copy of a root-owned directory, and OverlayFS sounds like the tool for the job, but I am finding it not as straightforward as it sounded at ...
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Shared folder remounts itself after umount
On a Oracle Linux 7.9 server, I have a directory that is mounted from another system. The fstab entry is:
[email protected]:/opt/commonfiles /opt/commonfiles/ fuse.sshfs identityfile=/home/myuser/....
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FUSE filesystems look at saved UID/GID?
While attempting to create a program that reads some configuration before launching programs as a normal user and then as the root user, I noticed this odd behavior. I can't seem to find mention of it ...
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EPERM when formatting block device on a FUSE filesystem
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Attempting to format a block device on my FUSE file system fails with EPERM at the open syscall. Permissions are set to 777 and the necessary ioctls are stubbed, but no logs are printed from ...
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How do I use a FUSE server independent of the Linux kernel?
Normally, when using a FUSE server (aka FUSE module or FUSE filesystem) the Linux kernel acts as the FUSE client. They talk a protocol that is semi-documented, but mostly only ever looked at by ...
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modprobe fuse doesn't seem to load module
I'm trying to load the fuse kernel module but for some reason it seems like it's not getting loaded. But I also don't get any error message. Can someone explain to me what's going on?
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Kernel-mounted vs FUSE-mounted exfat filesystem
I have read that support for the exfat filesystem has been incorporated in the Linux kernel since kernel ver 5.4 was released in late 2019 - early 2020. I'm confused about what this means wrt the ...
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Is curlftpfs missing in debian 12?
Tried to install curlftpfs in debian 12 says that the package is missing.
While I understand that the package is still not active developed I use often curlftpfs inside some virtual machines transfer ...
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