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-*- mode: outline -*-
* General Information
libfuse is a library intended for the GNU Hurd trying to imitate the
API of the fuse library, available from http://fuse.sourceforge.net, for
Linux. It's based on Hurd's libnetfs and tries to bring all the fuse based
virtual filesystems over to the Hurd.
** Fuse Low-Level API
The low-level API will not be supported by libfuse/Hurd for the
time being. This is simply because it is to specific to the Linux
kernel and (besides that) it is not farly used now.
In case the latter should change in the future, we might want to
re-think about that issue though.
This is, you will not succeed in compiling the hello_ll.c example
from the example-24 directory.
* Dependencies
Actually none, besides libnetfs. However you should have installed
that anyways (maybe missing just the header files).
* Installation
./configure
make
make install
For more details see the INSTALL file in this directory.
* How To Use
Translators linked against libfuse/Hurd don't work exactly like on
the Linux operating system. To be more precise: you need to install
them using settrans.
Some filesystems check for the availibility of a command line
argument, which they want to pass to libfuse, and simply fail, if
you don't supply it. This is because on Linux you call the
translator as a program as such and specify the mount-point as the
first argument.
If the fuse-based translator insists on that argument, just provide
any useless information (maybe the correct path). This one will not
be treated (at least by libfuse).
The filesystem will be put on the node you provide to the settrans
command. Anything else is not of any interest.
Filesystems that try to export more than one filesystem (I don't
know of any example, sorry, but these are generally supported by
Linux's FUSE) will fail on the Hurd. This is because of the settrans
thing.
* Bug Reports
You can contact us at <hurdextras-hackers@nongnu.org>.
$Id: README,v 1.4 2006/01/30 22:33:57 stesie Exp $
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