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The mount sequence

FUSE mounting is a little bit tricky. There's a userspace helper tool that performs the handshake with the kernel, and then steps out of the way. This helper behaves differently on different platforms, forcing a more complex API on us.

Successful runs

The mount is immediate and file system accesses wait until the requests are served.

Diagram of the mount sequence

Errors

Let's see what happens if InitRequest gets an error response. The mountpoint is temporarily there but all operations will fail:

Diagram of error handling