Re: [Qemu-devel][PATCH] qemu-fuse

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:00:27PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Luca Bigliardi wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >
> >  
> >>1) disable the root readable limitation in fuse, this has to be done  
> >>globally and I suspect is unlikely to be done by distros.
> >>    
> >
> >I'm sorry, why you don't like to pass '-o allow_root' to fuse_main() from
> >your application ?
> >  
> 
> It also requires user_allow_root to be specified in /etc/fuse.conf.
> 
> Why don't you like qemu-nbd?  FWIW, I'm open to fuse but I don't think 
> we should have both an NBD server and a fuse filesystem.  I think we 
> should try and have a single mechanism to access guest images.

Well qemu-nbd also allows sharing to remote machines, whereas fuse
only exposes it locally. qemu-nbd also allows access to things which
aren't filesystems. eg, you could have LVM / software RAID devices
inside your qcow file - qemu-fuse won't help you get access to those.

Daniel
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