Bug#735182: RFS: fuseloop/1.0.1-1 ITP -- loopback mount using FUSE

["Johannes Schauer" <j.schauer@email.de>]

Hi Ahmed,

Quoting أحمد المحمودي (2014-01-22 08:52:43)
> At the end of the README it says to use mountlo, but there isn't such a
> utility in Debian.

there is also no such utility in other distributions it seems. After some
digging I found out that mountlo is a utility which uses fuse and a minimal
usermode linux to mount any filesystem the linux kernel understands with fuse
(at least in theory). Unfortunately it only ever built on i386 and upstream is
long dead.

I might have a look at mountlo as well and become its new upstream if it seems
worth it because I have a high interest in being able to mount any filesystem
in userspace [1].

For now, it's maybe makes sense to patch that line in the readme with:

fuse-ext2 -o rw,force mydisk.img /mnt

Do you agree?

cheers, josch