New issue 265 by cga...@gmail.com: Unable to mount to a non empty directory
http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/issues/detail?id=265
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Detailed description of observed behavior:
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It seems that s3fs isn't able to mount to a non empty directory. This
ability does exist in FUSE if specifying the nonempty option. This option
doesn't seem to do anything, and from the source it looks like that s3fs is
checking whether the directory is empty or not. Why isn't this deferred to
FUSE so that the nonempty option can be used? Is there some other
limitation to s3fs that prevents the use of nonempty directories?
I know that mounting to a nonempty directory is not a normal use case, but
it is a valid one. I use it all the time, and shuffling around directories
is cumbersome.
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What steps will reproduce the problem - please be very specific and
detailed. (if the developers cannot reproduce the issue, then it is
unlikely a fix will be found)?
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Try to mount a bucket to a non empty directory.
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Version of s3fs being used (s3fs --version): 1.61
Version of fuse being used (pkg-config --modversion fuse):
System information (uname -a): Custom Linux Kernel
Distro (cat /etc/issue): NA
s3fs command line used (if applicable): s3fs test-bucket /opt/rpath -o
allow_others,nonempty
/etc/fstab entry (if applicable):
s3fs syslog messages (grep s3fs /var/log/syslog):