Question

I’m tinkering around with the fuse-python bindings and I can’t seem to grasp how to run the example xmp.py from the library package (xmp.py is located here). Looking at a lecture slide from MIT (located here), on slide 33, it shows the command line invoking of xmp.py:

./xmp.py --o root=/mit/sipb/ /tmp/mntdir

(I do python xmp.py instead of ./xmp.py since my ubuntu doesn’t understand ./ with python script for some reason)

From what I get out of it, the root=/mit/sipb arg is a directory of what you are emulating and /tmp/mntdir is where you mount your FUSE FS. So, I try…

python xmp.py --o root=/home/chris /tmp/fs

…and it doesnt want to run and it complains about the --o option. I remove the --o option and it runs (ps ax shows it running) but the folder /tmp/fs becomes corrupt and when I try accessing it I get cannot access /tmp/fs: Input/output error.

How do I properly run xmp.py?

Thanks!

(I also tried replacing --o with -o and it still doesn’t work.)

Answer 1

I tried your script, and on my ubuntu box, with this command line :

python xmp.py -o root=/home/chris /tmp/fs

it works !

With a --o option, it never works 😉