• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    8 months ago

    Note: Android kernel has had this since 12 because FUSE is used to enforce permissions and to emulate legacy storage types.

    https://source.android.com/docs/core/storage/fuse-passthrough

    From the patch back in 2016:

    There is also a significant cpu/power savings that is achieved which is really important on embedded systems that use fuse for I/O.