Fuse Mounts Recovery and Checkpoint/Restore

Fuse Mounts Recovery and Checkpoint/Restore

Explore the concept of FUSE API extension for fuse mounts healing and Checkpoint/Restore in this 24-minute conference talk from the Linux Plumbers Conference. Delve into the ongoing discussion about improving FUSE support in CRIU, focusing on the critical issue of fuse mount "healing." Learn about the importance of this problem for the LXC project, particularly concerning the LXCFS fuse filesystem, and discover how enhancing fuse mounts recovery can improve reliability in cases of daemon crashes. Gain insights into how these concepts can be applied to fuse-based storages and understand the potential implications for system stability and performance.