Re: [qemu-web PATCH] Update FUSE block export blog post

[Eric Blake]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 06:29:16PM +0200, Hanna Reitz wrote:
> Because I forgot to CC Thomas on the discussion adding this post, it was
> merged prematurely.  This patch updates the post to incorporate the
> feedback I received on it:
>

Overall, nice!  I see it's already live, but another tweak you might
want to make:

> +## File mounts
>  
> -A perhaps little-known fact is that, on Linux, filesystems do not need to 
> have
> -a root directory, they only need to have a root node.  A filesystem that only
> -provides a single regular file is perfectly valid.
> +To transparently translate a file into a different format, like we did 
> above, we
> +make use of two little-known facts about filesystems and the VFS on Linux.  
> The
> +first one of these we can explain immediately, for the second one we will 
> need
> +some more information about how FUSE exports work, so that secret will be 
> lifted

s/lifted/revealed/

> +later (down in the “Mounting an image on itself” section).
> +

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