Persistently Use FUSE Inside of LXC Container

rflaherty

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Jun 18, 2015
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I am using a package called s3fs which allows you to mount s3 object storage on a linux machine as a disk.

When trying to mount it, I get the error

fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first


After referencing this thread, I was able to figure out that I need to run the following command to make fuse available to containers for my mount command to work properly:


mknod -m 666 /dev/fuse c 10 229

I can then run my s3fs mount command without error. However, all my attempts to make it persistent thus-far have failed. I followed this guide which had me place the following in the /etc/pve/lxc/container.conf file:

lxc.autodev: 1 lxc.hook.autodev: sh -c "mknod -m 0666 ${LXC_ROOTFS_MOUNT}/dev/fuse c 10 229"


However, the container refuses to boot when this is is in the config file, throwing the following error:

__safe_mount_beneath_at: 1106 Function not implemented - Failed to open 51(dev) run_buffer: 314 Script exited with status 2 lxc_setup: 3393 Failed to run autodev hooks do_start: 1218 Failed to setup container "108" __sync_wait: 36 An error occurred in another process (expected sequence number 5) __lxc_start: 1999 Failed to spawn container "108" TASK ERROR: startup for container '108' failed

Does anyone have any idea how to set this up correctly so that this change is persistent and I don't have to run a command manually every time to make it work?
 
I suspect you won't need the modifications you made with that enabled. I run a few fuse mounts in my containers, enabling that was all I needed to do.
 

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