Bug#386777: RFP: afuse -- automounting file system implemented in user-space using FUSE

[Ryan Nowakowski <tubaman@fattuba.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : afuse
  Version         : 0.1.1
  Upstream Author : Jacob Bower <jacob.bower@ic.ac.uk>
* URL             : http://afuse.sourceforge.net/ 
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : automounting file system implemented in user-space using FUSE

Afuse is an automounting file system implemented in user-space using
FUSE. Afuse currently implements the most basic functionality that can
be expected by an automounter; that is it manages a directory of virtual
directories. If one of these virtual directories is accessed and is not
already automounted, afuse will attempt to mount a filesystem onto that
directory. If the mount succeeds the requested access proceeds as normal,
otherwise it will fail with an error. See the example below for a specific
usage scenario.

The advantage of using afuse over traditional automounters is that afuse
is designed to run entirely in user-space by individual users. This way an
automounting action can take advantage of the invoking users environment,
for example allowing access to an ssh-agent for password-less sshfs
mounts, or allowing access to a graphical environment to get user input
to complete a mount (i.e. popping up a window asking for a password).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)