Re: FUSE merging?

[Eric Van Hensbergen]

On 9/3/05, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > While FUSE doesn't handle it directly, doesn't it have to punt it to
> > its network file systems, how to the sshfs and what not handle this
> > sort of mapping?
> 
> Sshfs handles it by not handling it.  In this case it is neither
> possible, nor needed to be able to correctly map the id space.
> 
> Yes, it may confuse the user.  It may even confuse the kernel for
> sticky directories(*).  But basically it just works, and is very
> simple.
> 

In principal, Plan 9 file servers handle permission checking
server-side, so we could likewise punt -- but it seemed a good idea to
have some form of mapping for directory listings (and things like
sticky directories) to make sense.

               -eric
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