I don't know whether it's common for other FUSE filesystems to provide these aliases, but there exists a `/usr/sbin/mount.fuse` that gets invoked when `/etc/fstab` mentions a filesystem such as `fuse.bindfs`.
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 2:48 PM Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote: > Package: bindfs > Version: 1.14.7-1 > Severity: wishlist > > When mounting a filesystem using the standard mount utility (e.g. via > /etc/fstab), it tries to perform the mount by calling out to > "mount.$FSTYPE" when it does not know how to mount the particular > filesystem type already. As it happens, bindfs does not belong to those > types that mount understands. Unfortunately, it also does not provide a > mount.bindfs on /usr/sbin. Therefore mount fails to forward to bindfs. > Would it be reasonable to provide a symlink /usr/sbin/mount.bindfs -> > ../bin/bindfs to make this work? Whether you do this or not, please > close this bug after having made a decision. > > Helmut > >
