Exploring building a tiny FUSE filesystem(shayon.dev)
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Exploring building a tiny FUSE filesystem
https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/161/building-a-tiny-fuse-filesystem/
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Indeed, the glibc test suite .. plus a suite of BPF scripts for instrumenting .. can provide a great deal of information about how things are running in a target OS .. if you give a process its own filesystem and then rig up a bpf console with some hot gnuplot, you can get some very significant details, at the i/o level, about the heuristics of an application, library, user-space module/plugin, etc...
It used to be you had to wade through massive logs though, if you don't get things quite tweaked - but in the AI/ML agent sense of things these days, just describe what you need, FUSE the right nodes, and run the bpf scripts, yo ..
It used to be you had to wade through massive logs though, if you don't get things quite tweaked - but in the AI/ML agent sense of things these days, just describe what you need, FUSE the right nodes, and run the bpf scripts, yo ..
Is that something that should be merged to upstream Valgrind?
Everything we need is already upstream. I think the changes were:
commit 0690dc39644d15fc89813419ffcdf9754b098260
Author: Mark Wielaard <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Sep 22 23:24:34 2024 +0200
Implement /proc/self/exe readlink[at] fallback in POST handler
Calling the readlink[at] syscall directly from the PRE handler defeats
the FUSE_COMPATIBLE_MAY_BLOCK (SfMayBlock) flag. Add a POST handler
that only explicitly calls the readlink[at] handler for the
/proc/self/exe fallback (this should be fine unless /proc is also
implemented as fuse in this process).
Adjust readlink[at] GENX_ and LINX_ syswrap macros to GENXY and LINXY.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493507
commit ddf397c024c80382f7a2f3a0d46d58fb839eef96
Author: Mark Wielaard <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Sep 21 22:27:24 2024 +0200
Add missing FUSE_COMPATIBLE_MAY_BLOCKs
Various syscalls (in particular "at" variants) PRE handlers were
missing a FUSE_COMPATIBLE_MAY_BLOCK statement.
Add it to the generic PRE handlers of access and statfs64. And the
linux PRE handlers of mknodat, fchownat, futimesat, utimensat,
utimensat_time64, renameat, renameat2, readlinkat, fchmodat,
fchmodat2, faccessat and faccessat2.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493454[deleted]
The older I get, the more I appreciate posts that are basically I wanted to understand X, so I built a tiny version of it.
I don't know why, but I really enjoy reading this kind of content. I admire the people who implement and maintain this system.
I agree with you, I also enjoy reading it, and admire the method as well as the result in this case.
FUSE is immensely useful, also. Its the front-/back- door to a lot of things. There's only a few steps left to a tiny crypto-stack, hosted on top of it ..
FUSE is immensely useful, also. Its the front-/back- door to a lot of things. There's only a few steps left to a tiny crypto-stack, hosted on top of it ..
I had saved this kind of content, but I hadn't shared it here; maybe it will catch the attention of others like us. but it looks I could not find it
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Kernel FUSE documentation is a dead link
Can someone tell me if this is LLM generated content or not? I tried to look for obvious signs but didn't notice anything.
If I have to ask whether something is AI-generated after reading 11 minutes of filesystem internals, that's probably a compliment to the writing.
Looks human written to me. But if nothing stands out, then why care?
No, your comment is not LLM generated. Or, at least, I hope it isn't.
Why?
What I found funny when I discovered it is that you can create a thread in the same process that provides the FUSE file system implementation for this very process. It makes it much easier to write certain tests, especially debugging. We had to teach valgrind that more system calls effectively perform callbacks into the same process, but fortunately valgrind already had a FUSE_COMPATIBLE_MAY_BLOCK mechanism for that.