Rust FUSE library for server, virtio-fs and vhost-user-fs

Design

The fuse-backend-rs crate is an rust library to implement Fuse daemons based on the Linux FUSE device (/dev/fuse) or the virtiofs draft specification.

Linux FUSE is an userspace filesystem framework, and the /dev/fuse device node is the interface for userspace filesystem daemons to communicate with the in-kernel fuse driver.

And the virito-fs specification extends the FUSE framework into the virtualization world, which uses the Virtio protocol to transfer FUSE requests and responses between the Fuse client and server. With virtio-fs, the Fuse client runs within the guest kernel and the Fuse server runs on the host userspace or hardware.

So the fuse-rs crate is a library to communicate with the Linux FUSE clients, which includes:

• ABI layer, which defines all data structures shared between linux Fuse framework and Fuse daemons.
• API layer, defines the interfaces for Fuse daemons to implement a userspace file system.
• Transport layer, which supports both the Linux Fuse device and virtio-fs protocol.
• VFS/pseudo_fs, an abstraction layer to support multiple file systems by a single virtio-fs device.
• A sample passthrough file system implementation, which passes through files from daemons to clients.

Examples

Filesystem Drivers

• Virtual File System for an example of union file system.
• Pseudo File System for an example of pseudo file system.
• Passthrough File System for an example of passthrough(stacked) file system.
• Registry Accelerated File System for an example of readonly file system for container images.

Fuse Servers

• Dragonfly Image Service fusedev Server for an example of implementing a fuse server based on the fuse-backend-rs crate.
• Dragonfly Image Service vhost-user-fs Server for an example of implementing vhost-user-fs server based on the fuse-backend-rs crate.

Fuse Server and Main Service Loop

A sample fuse server based on the Linux Fuse device (/dev/fuse):

use fuse_backend_rs::api::{server::Server, Vfs, VfsOptions};
use fuse_backend_rs::transport::fusedev::{FuseSession, FuseChannel};

struct FuseServer {
    server: Arc<Server<Arc<Vfs>>>,
    ch: FuseChannel,
}

impl FuseServer {
    fn svc_loop(&self) -> Result<()> {
      // Given error EBADF, it means kernel has shut down this session.
      let _ebadf = std::io::Error::from_raw_os_error(libc::EBADF);
      loop {
        if let Some((reader, writer)) = self
                .ch
                .get_request()
                .map_err(|_| std::io::Error::from_raw_os_error(libc::EINVAL))?
        {
          if let Err(e) = self.server.handle_message(reader, writer, None, None) {
            match e {
              fuse_backend_rs::Error::EncodeMessage(_ebadf) => {
                break;
              }
              _ => {
                error!("Handling fuse message failed");
                continue;
              }
            }
          }
        } else {
          info!("fuse server exits");
          break;
        }
      }
      Ok(())
    }
}

License

This project is licensed under

• Apache License, Version 2.0
• BSD-3-Clause License