Re: [uml-devel] [Announce] mountlo 0.5 - Loopback mounting in userspace

[Jeff Dike]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:10:38PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> 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.

Very cute.  I'm in the process of doing something similar, except I'm
integrating a FUSE server into the UML kernel to export the UML
filesystem to the host.  So far, I can cd and ls inside the mount -
lookup and readdir are implemented.

				Jeff
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