FUSE needs a way to set "hints" for file-management

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Tue Jul 10 04:17:59 PDT 2007


Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
>On 7/9/07, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
>> nf2 wrote:
>> >I wonder where/how such meta-information could be stored/retrieved...
>> >
>> >* mtab
>> >* config-files in $HOME/.config
>> >* /proc
>> >* getxattr
>>
>> One more option:
>> * A file called .directory at the mount point path.
>
>Not all mounts are writable and some systems don't hide dotfiles
>(think NTFS-driven portable media)

I thought we were talking about FUSE.

FUSE can create a virtual file with the settings, if needed.

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