`--implicit-dirs` not able to be used in conjunction with `mount -t ...`

[Paul CJ Hetherington]

Describe the issue
The necessity of --implicit-dirs is outlined in various places but it is not able to be used when mounting with the native mount option targeting gcsfuse. This makes the scripts provided in following issue #1387.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. run mount -t gcsfuse --implicit-dirs my-bucket local-dir

System (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu 22.04

[Prince Kumar]

Did you try the command like this: sudo mount -t gcsfuse -o implicit_dirs=true my-bucket local-dir ?

Linux mount command takes in _ format, internally we change it as normal gcsfuse command. See here, how gcsfuse handles it the code.

Soon, we will be updating cloud-storage-fuse mount-doc with this use case.

[Nitin Garg]

Adding more details to #1705 (comment).. With mount command, all hyphens(-s) in the gcsfuse flags should be replaced with undescores (_s).

Example below:

Wrong usage

sudo mount -t gcsfuse -o implicit-dirs $bucket $mountpath

Error message:
daemonize.Run: readFromProcess: sub-process: mountWithArgs: mountWithStorageHandle: Mount: mount: invalid argument

Correct usage

sudo mount -t gcsfuse -o implicit_dirs $bucket $mountpath

Error message: None

[Nitin Garg]

@paulcjh please look at the above comment for solution.

We'll also be adding the same to our documentation.

[Nitin Garg]

This has now been documented at GCSFuse cloud documentation .

[Ashmeen Kaur]

Hi @paulcjh

I am closing this issue as we've provided a fix and documented this on our official documentation. Feel free to reopen this issue if you need further assistance.

Thanks,
Ashmeen