Re: [AVFS] avfs on Linux 2.6

> Now that there is a new version of avfs, I would like
> to try it again.
> 
> I am running linux 2.6.12 and it seems that the only
> way of installing avfs is the library. That would prevent
> general access to the virtual files through /overlay.
> 
> Is there any way of enabling /overlay access? avfscoda?
> fuse?

Olivier Valentin made a patch which enables avfscoda to work on 2.6.*,
see:

 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6709389&forum_id=32283

FUSE support is very experimental, but you can fetch the CVS version
of AVFS, and there you can find a 'fuse' direcory and build avfsd.

Unfortunately neither of these bring the old 'redir' functionality on
2.4 kernels.

There were some discussions about directory view of files on the Linux
kernel mailing list.  This together with automounting the AVFS
filesystem could actually bring back something similar to the redir
functionality.  But it's a lot of work.

Miklos


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