A simple FUSE filesystem that makes symlinks look like actual files.
This fork changes:
- ctime/mtime taken from symlink rather than file pointed to (unique behaviour needed for my use case)
- Chroot-like protection to ensure symlink points within a given path, otherwise there is nothing stopping you symlinking to anywhere
- Imports changed for Debian (fuse->fusepy)
See also: https://bindfs.org/ -o resolve-symlinks, which I have moved to in place of this.
You can compile the package into an executabe by running make. The output is titled 'hide-symlinks'. The idea is based on this blog post.
You can run it by calling the executable like so: ./hide-symlinks <root> <mount-point> <chroot>, where <root> is the directory to be mirrored or looped, and
<mount-point> is the (empty) directory to mount the new fuse filesystem, and
<chroot> is the parent 'chroot' directory that symlinks are allowed to point
to. It does not have to be within the other two directories.
The filesystem relies on fusepy, and
uses the Loopback example included with fusepy as a base class. It simply
changes the getattr operation to use the os.stat call instead of the os.lstat
call, effectively hiding symlinks. I also removed the symlink operation (which
seems to have issues, though it does work). Otherwise, all operations work as
normal for a loopback filesystem (e.g. writes and reads defer to the <root>
directory).