Overview

bindfs is a FUSE filesystem for mounting a directory to another location, similarly to mount --bind. The permissions inside the mountpoint can be altered using various rules.

Examples

Here are some examples of what bindfs can do for you:

• Make a directory read-only.

bindfs --perms=a-w somedir somedir

• Share a directory with some other users without modifying /etc/group.

bindfs --mirror-only=joe,bob,@wheel ~/some/dir shared

• Make your website available to the webserver process read-only.

bindfs --owner=www --perms=0000:u=rD ~/stuff/website ~/public_html

• Make all new files uploaded to an FTP share owned by you and seen by everyone.

bindfs --create-for-user=me --create-with-perms=u+rw,a+rD /var/ftp/uploads /var/ftp/uploads

Manual

• bindfs --help
• man 1 bindfs

Support

bindfs has been tested on Linux 2.4/2.6 with fuse 2.5.3+ as well as Mac OS X 10.5 with MacFUSE. Please tell me if you have tried it on another platform, such as FreeBSD.

Basic installation instructions are available.

All bug reports, comments and ideas are very welcome at <martin dot partel at gmail dot com> or the issue tracker.