How to register FUSE filesystem type with mount(8) and fstab?

In general, one “registers” a new mount filesystem type by creating an executable mount.fstype. $ ln -s /usr/bin/vdbfs.py /usr/sbin/mount.vdbfs If vdbfs.py takes mount-ish arguments (i.e. dev path [-o opts]), then mount -t vdbfs and using vdbfs as the 3rd field in fstab will work. If it doesn’t, you can create a wrapper which does take … Read more

FUSE inside Docker

With respect to Nickolay’s answer below, the –privileged flag is not strictly required, for fuse. And you’re best to avoid giving that much privilege to your container. You should be able to get things working by replacing it with –cap-add SYS_ADMIN like below. docker run -d –rm \ –device /dev/fuse \ –cap-add SYS_ADMIN \ <image_id/name> … Read more

Transport endpoint is not connected

I have exactly the same problem. I haven’t found a solution anywhere, but I have been able to fix it without rebooting by simply unmounting and remounting the mountpoint. For your system the commands would be: fusermount -uz /data mount /data The -z forces the unmount, which solved the need to reboot for me. You … Read more