Allow mounting to non-empty directories

[PandoJ]

Tell us more about this new feature.

Feature to mount a nonempty folder is requested. Presently mounting fails if target folder is not empty.

[arsh]

@PandoJ can you tell us more about your use case for this?

[PandoJ]

Hello Andres, When mounting S3 bucket to existing directory, the directory must be empty, otherwise the action fails with an error. When doing it manually, I can erase the directory first and then mount it, to workaround the issue. However, there is a third party service on my server, which creates some empty subfolders in the folder to be mounted. It is a backup tool, and that behavior is expected. I created a systemd service which mounts S3 bucket upon the host reboot, but the reboot also triggers those subfolders creation by the backup tools and prevents S3 mountpoint to complete. Once more, I can delete them first and then mount the bucket, but I would rather not have to fiddle with it and was able to mount regardless if there are any folders already or not, as it’s possible with the standard Linux mount command. Best, Jan From: 'Andres Santana' via Tech ***@***.***> Reply-To: awslabs/mountpoint-s3 ***@***.***> Date: Friday, August 2, 2024 at 08:25 To: awslabs/mountpoint-s3 ***@***.***> Cc: PandoJ ***@***.***>, Mention ***@***.***> Subject: [tech] Re: [awslabs/mountpoint-s3] Nonempty folder mounting (Issue #954) @PandoJ<https://github.com/PandoJ> can you tell us more about your use case for this? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#954 (comment)>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/A4DW3KZZBMYBICRBBE5WUG3ZPN3B7AVCNFSM6AAAAABLPDGYMKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDENRVGI2DENRQGE>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>