Bug#951208: Impossible to mount over nonempty directories

2021-02-05 Thread marc
Package: bindfs Followup-For: Bug #951208 bindfs -o nonempty ... works for me after today's fuse3 update to 3.10.1-3, which is patched per #939767 ("fuse3: Installing fuse3 breaks fuse2 applications using -o nonempty").

Bug#951208: Impossible to mount over nonempty directories

2021-01-10 Thread marc
Package: bindfs Version: 1.14.7-1 Followup-For: Bug #951208 On 18/02/2020 14:07, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > How common of a use case is to use bindfs with a non-empty mount point? I > never mounted filesystems like that myself, so > I don't know if it's a minor nuisance with an easy

Bug#951208: fuse3's backwards compatibilty (Re: Bug#951208: Impossible to mount over nonempty directories)

2020-02-21 Thread Willem Mulder
Hi, On 18/02/2020 14:07, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > How common of a use case is to use bindfs with a non-empty mount point? I > never mounted filesystems like that myself, so > I don't know if it's a minor nuisance with an easy workaround, or a > significant limitation making some use case >

Bug#951208: fuse3's backwards compatibilty (Re: Bug#951208: Impossible to mount over nonempty directories)

2020-02-18 Thread Martin Pärtel
I've used non-empty mountpoints a few times, mostly when mounting a directory onto itself, but I have no idea how popular that use case really is. Mounting to a new empty location is probably always possible, but it's sometimes quite undesirable or inconvenient: - Sometimes I want to enforce

Bug#951208: fuse3's backwards compatibilty (Re: Bug#951208: Impossible to mount over nonempty directories)

2020-02-18 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hello, Martin Pärtel kirjoitti 17.2.2020 klo 10.49: > I'm unfortunately unlikely to have time to port bindfs to FUSE 3 in the near > future :( > > The easiest distro-level workaround in terms of "least code required" would > probably be to patch fuse3's fusermount to > allow and ignore

Bug#951208: Impossible to mount over nonempty directories

2020-02-17 Thread Martin Pärtel
Ok, thanks. If you don't use other FUSE filesystems, you can maybe uninstall `fuse3` and install `fuse`. I'm unfortunately unlikely to have time to port bindfs to FUSE 3 in the near future :( The easiest distro-level workaround in terms of "least code required" would probably be to patch fuse3's

Bug#951208: Impossible to mount over nonempty directories

2020-02-12 Thread Willem Mulder
Hi Martin, On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 17:17 +0200, Martin Pärtel wrote: > If that doesn't help, maybe you're running a mixed environment where > e.g. bindfs is compiled against FUSE 2 but the system runs FUSE 3 > helper binaries? The version list at the end of your e-mail suggests > this. I haven't

Bug#951208: Impossible to mount over nonempty directories

2020-02-12 Thread Martin Pärtel
Hi Willem, The only reference to "nonempty" in binds code is when a directory is mounted on itself. In that case bindfs adds `-ononempty` automatically. I changed it so it doesn't on FUSE 3: https://github.com/mpartel/bindfs/commit/2c2337b7c9b87744662c4b08d453bf7128444f43 (git master, not in a

Bug#951208: Impossible to mount over nonempty directories

2020-02-12 Thread Willem Mulder
Package: bindfs Version: 1.14.1-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/bindfs Dear Maintainer, Currently, it's not possible for me to mount over nonempty directories. BindFS insists I have to use -o nonempty: fuse: mountpoint is not empty fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the