Re: Mad idea: grub-fuse

[Bean]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Michal Suchanek<address@hidden> wrote:
> 2009/9/7 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>:
>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Colin Watson<address@hidden> wrote:
>>> os-prober mounts filesystems using Linux's filesystem drivers. This of
>>> course means that we have to go to special lengths to avoid replaying
>>> journals (we don't yet, but we should), we have to load huge piles of
>>> filesystem modules, etc.
>>>
>>> Today's crazy idea was to implement a FUSE wrapper for grub-fstest,
>>> thereby providing a read-only filesystem mount using GRUB's filesystem
>>> drivers. There would be lots of things you probably wouldn't be able to
>>> do this way, but it would be enough to support os-prober (which could of
>>> course only use this optionally, but even so).
>>>
>>> I can't decide whether or not this is a terrible idea, so I'm sending
>>> mail in case somebody thinks it's a good idea and wants to run with it.
>>> :-)
>>>
>> Actually I had this idea before but haven't had any time to implement
>> or think more about it. This would be useful for massive multi-OS
>> environment since fuse is available on many platforms but many of FS
>> drivers aren't. Implementing fuse wrapper for grub fs drivers is
>> useful. However I'm not sure if it should go to main repository - this
>> project isn't really about booting. I think that it's useful but
>> should be a separate "spin-off" project
>
> Since we want grub use this module and at this point in time the FUSE
> interface is more stable than grub interfaces I think it would be more
> natural to start developing this kind of module with GRUB unless there
> are some license issues. After all, grub includes other tools that are
> meant for running outside of GRUB. The question remains who (if
> anybody at all) writes the wrapper.

Hi,

I can check this out on my spare time, but for now, new menu interface
has higher priority on my todo list.

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