tree ce94449b7f2a62162fdbef0e4324c2ad8d66adbe
parent bdcf25080438ba71bb24b885e7c102de72c25c9d
author Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> 1165466144 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> 1165509571 -0800

[PATCH] fuse: add support for block device based filesystems

I never intended this, but people started using fuse to implement block device
based "real" filesystems (ntfs-3g, zfs).

The following four patches add better support for these kinds of filesystems.
Unlike "normal" fuse filesystems, using this feature should require superuser
privileges (enforced by the fusermount utility).

Thanks to Szabolcs Szakacsits for the input and testing.

This patch adds a 'fuseblk' filesystem type, which is only different from the
'fuse' filesystem type in how the 'dev_name' mount argument is interpreted.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>