Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [Announce] mountlo 0.5 - Loopback mounting in userspace | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:10:38 +0100 |
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I'm proud to announce a new version of my pet project 'mountlo', a utility which works similarly to 'mount -o loop', but the filesystem runs entirely in userspace.
While arguably it is quite useless, I like it because it combines some of my favorite technologies (Linux, UML and FUSE) with very little additional glue code.
Features:
o safe mounting of filesystem images for unprivileged users o all disk-filesystem types supported in a single binary
What's new since 0.2:
o support for partitioned disk images o support for mount options o error reporting both from mount and the kernel o achieves reasonable performance using SKAS0 mode of UML o verbose and debug modes
An i386 binary (2MB) is available at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fuse/mountlo-i386-0.5.tar.gz
Requirements for running the binary are:
- FUSE kernel module. Since 2.6.14, this is included in mainline - FUSE utilities (at least version 2.2).
Compiling from source needs the following components:
- http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fuse/mountlo-0.5.tar.gz - Linux-2.6.15 kernel source - FUSE-2.5 or later devel package (or source installation)
Comments and bug reports are welcome.
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