This is a school project to programming. It is not intended for serious use. There is a serious risk of data loss if you use it on a real volume with important data.
You will need to download and install Rust and also install libfuse
development files (sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev on Ubuntu).
To build the library and the example, please run
cargo build --example fuse
in the root of the repository. The command will download and build necessary
dependencies from creates.io, the repository of Rust packages, and then it will
compile the library and the example. The compiled executable will be located in
target/debug/examples/fuse.
The example can be executed like this:
./target/debug/examples/fuse <ext2-file> <mount-point>
It will use <ext2-file> as the volume (I strongly suggest using a regular file
-- do not use on real volumes containing important data) and will mount it on
<mount-point> (it will fail if the mount point does not exist). The process
will exit once the filesystem is unmounted, either using umount or fusermount -u. Killing or terminating the process will not unmount the filesystem.
An empty filesystem can be created using
head -c <filesystem-size> >filesystem.ext2
mkfs -t ext2 filesystem.ext2