Allow writing in borg mount

[rugk]

Why not have an option (--allow-write), which mounts the borg repo in r/w mode, so that I can delete files/archives. This would solve #2858 easily and in a convenient way for the user.

Or is this solution not possible/too difficult?

[ThomasWaldmann]

too difficult and also not worth it. borg is a backup tool. archives are basically read-only.

borg recreate offers a way to re-create a new archive based on an old one (but even that is not modifying the original one).

[cpitclaudel]

Related discussion: NixOS/nixpkgs#89380

[ThomasWaldmann]

@cpitclaudel i see that a deduplicating fs is useful for some purposes (if one is willing to take the resource consumption overhead, like RAM and CPU), but the borg fuse fs is not the right base for that, see my comment above.

[cpitclaudel]

Completely fair :) I added the link to also reroute future visitors.