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SubjectRe: [uml-devel] [Announce] mountlo 0.5 - Loopback mounting in userspace
FromMiklos Szeredi <>
DateMon, 27 Feb 2006 18:20:30 +0100
> > I'm proud to announce a new version of my pet project 'mountlo', a
> > utility which works similarly to 'mount -o loop', but the filesystem
> > runs entirely in userspace.
> > 
> > While arguably it is quite useless, I like it because it combines some
> > of my favorite technologies (Linux, UML and FUSE) with very little
> > additional glue code.
> 
> Very cute.  I'm in the process of doing something similar, except I'm
> integrating a FUSE server into the UML kernel to export the UML
> filesystem to the host.  So far, I can cd and ls inside the mount -
> lookup and readdir are implemented.

Great.  I always wanted to do the exporting inside the kernel, but put
it off as being too hard :)

Miklos
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