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diff --git a/perl/README b/perl/README index 87d5a7d..fb49cd7 100644 --- a/perl/README +++ b/perl/README @@ -1,23 +1,25 @@ -Fuse version 0.02 +Fuse version 0.03 ================= -This is a test release. It seems to work thus far, but still has a few -iffy areas, as well as a few rough edges. There will be future -releases. +This is a test release. It seems to work quite well. In fact, I can't +find any problems with it whatsoever. If you do, I want to know. + INSTALLATION -To install this module type the following: +To install this module type the standard commands as root: perl Makefile.PL make - make test # currently this just makes sure the lib can link + make test make install + DEPENDENCIES This module requires the FUSE userspace library and the FUSE kernel module. + COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE This is contributed to the FUSE project by Mark Glines <mark@glines.org>, @@ -25,6 +27,31 @@ and is therefore subject to the same license and copyright as FUSE itself. Please see the AUTHORS and COPYING files from the FUSE distribution for more information. + +EXAMPLES + +There are a few example scripts. You can find them in the examples/ +subdirectory. These are: + +* example.pl, a simple "Hello world" type of script + +* loopback.pl, a filesystem loopback-device. like fusexmp from + the main FUSE dist, it simply recurses file operations + into the real filesystem. Unlike fusexmp, it only + re-shares files under the /tmp/test directory. + +* rmount.pl, an NFS-workalike which tunnels through SSH. It requires + an account on some ssh server (obviously), with public-key + authentication enabled. (if you have to type in a password, + you don't have this. man ssh_keygen.). Copy rmount_remote.pl + to your home directory on the remote machine, and create a + subdir somewhere, and then run it like: + ./rmount.pl host /remote/dir /local/dir + +* rmount_remote.pl, a ripoff of loopback.pl meant to be used as a backend + for rmount.pl. + + BUGS I've begun to build a formal testing framework. Currently it can mount @@ -35,8 +62,8 @@ The current test framework seems to work well, but the underlying mount/ unmount infrastructure is a crock. I am not pleased with that code. While most things work, I do still have a TODO list: -* while "ln -s" works as expected, "cp -a" kicks out an error on symlinks. * "du -sb" reports a couple orders of magnitude too large a size. * need to sort out cleaner mount semantics for the test framework * figure out how to un-linuxcentrify the statfs tests * test everything on other architectures and OS's + |