Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Samba and archfs / fuse

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Nov 18, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Dominic wrote:

> After I said that archfs is magical over Samba, I am now struggling  
> to get it to work. :-[
>
> The problem I believe is that fuse (upon which archfs depends) does  
> not normally allow users, other than the user who created the mount,  
> to access its filesystem. This can be overridden by mounting the  
> filesystem with the "-oallow_other" mount option, a/c to the fuse  
> FAQ (http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=FAQ#Why_don.27t_other_users_have_access_to_the_mounted_filesystem.3F 
> ), but when I try to specify this on the archfs command line it is  
> rejected with 'Error: no such option; see man archfs' (which  
> incidentally does not exist).

You're right -- archfs does not pass options on to the underlying fuse  
system. It really should.

Here's a quick fix for you:

In archfs.c, around line 27, change:

    args[2] = "-d";

    return fuse_main(2, args, &operations, NULL);

to:

    args[2] = "-d";
    args[3] = strdup("-oallow_other");

    return fuse_main(3, args, &operations, NULL);

If that doesn't work, change the first argument of fuse_main from 3 to  
4. (I'm not sure what argc is supposed to be there ...)


Andrew