On 07.09.21 19:52, Eric Blake wrote:
On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 06:29:16PM +0200, Hanna Reitz wrote:
Because I forgot to CC Thomas on the discussion adding this post, it was
merged prematurely. This patch updates the post to incorporate the
feedback I received on it:
Overall, nice! I see it's already live, but another tweak you might
want to make:
+## File mounts
-A perhaps little-known fact is that, on Linux, filesystems do not need to have
-a root directory, they only need to have a root node. A filesystem that only
-provides a single regular file is perfectly valid.
+To transparently translate a file into a different format, like we did above,
we
+make use of two little-known facts about filesystems and the VFS on Linux. The
+first one of these we can explain immediately, for the second one we will need
+some more information about how FUSE exports work, so that secret will be
lifted
s/lifted/revealed/
Ah, yes. I don’t think I’ll send another update just for this, but I
will include it if I need to send an update for some other reason.
Hanna
