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A type-safe wrapper around mount() system call for rust with good error reporting

libmount

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This is a higher-level wrapper around mount() system call for linux.

Goals:

  1. Type-safe wrapper, including mount options
  2. Support of new features such as overlayfs
  3. Good support of unprivileges user namespaces
  4. Very detailed error messages, which are helpful for end users

Features:

  • [x] Bind Mounts
  • [x] OverlayFS
  • [x] Tmpfs
  • [ ] Pseudo file systems: proc, sys
  • [ ] umount and umount2
  • [x] Parser of /proc/PID/mountinfo
  • [x] Read-only mounts (remount)
  • [ ] Ext2/3/4
  • [ ] Btrfs
  • [ ] Support of mount flags throught trait
  • [ ] Fuse

License

Licensed under either of

  • Apache License, Version 2.0, (./LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
  • MIT license (./LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.