Filesystems

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Language Bindings
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C

This is the native API

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Java

Name: FUSE-J

Author: Peter Levart / peter.levart at select-tech si

Download: http://www.select-tech.si/fuse/

Alternate download: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~tdm25/fuse-j/

Description

    FUSE-J provides Java binding for FUSE. It comes with the
    "proof-of-concept" ZIP filesystem which seems to be pretty stable.

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C#

Name: SULF - Stackable User-Level Filesystem

Author: Valient Gough / vgough at pobox com

Homepage: http://arg0.net/users/vgough/sulf/index.html

Description

    SULF allows you to write a Linux filesystem in C#. It uses the
    FUSE library to do the actual Linux filesystem integration in
    user-space.

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TCL

Name: TCL FUSE interface

Author: Colin McCormack? / colin at chinix com

Homepage: http://mini.net/tcl/13853

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Python

Name: Python interface for FUSE

Author: Jeff Epler

Maintainer: Sebastien Delafond / sdelafond at gmx net

CVS: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fuse co -P python

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Perl

Name: Perl interface for FUSE

Author: Mark Glines

Maintainer: Dobrica Pavlinusic / dpavlin at rot13 org

Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/~dpavlin/Fuse-0.05/

CVS: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fuse co -P perl

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Sh

Name: Fuse-J-shfs

Author: Paul "Joey" Clark / joey at hwi ath cx

Homepage: http://hwi.ath.cx/twiki/bin/view/Neuralyte/FuseJshfs

Description

    Fuse-J-shfs lets you easily implement a virtual filesystem in Unix
    shellscript. And naturally, it already has some handy vfs
    implementations you can use straight away: gzip, rar, sparse, ...

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OCaml

Name: OCamlFuse

Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocamlfuse

Description

    This is an ocaml binding for fuse enabling you to write your own
    multithreaded userspace filesystems using the ocaml programming
    language.

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Pliant

Source: http://fullpliant.org/pliant/browse/file/pliant/linux/storage/fuse.pli?text

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File Systems
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Name: OW

Author: Paul H. Alfille / palfille at partners org

Homepage: http://owfs.sourceforge.net

Description

    OWFS uses FUSE to expose all the Dallas 1-wire sensors, iButtons
    and memory chips as a filesystem. Devices are dynamically included
    in the directory, and properties like temperature are obtained by
    reading a file.

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FunFS

Status: alpha

Author: Michael Grigoriev (Net Integration Technologies) / mag at luminal org

Homepage: http://www.luminal.org/wiki/index.php/FunFS/FunFS

Description

    FunFS is an advanced network file system with a simple goal: to be
    better than NFS.

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EncFS

Author: Valient Gough / vgough at pobox com

Homepage: http://pobox.com/~vgough/encfs.html

Description

    EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. The EncFS
    module itself runs without any special permissions and uses the
    FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem
    interface.

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SMB for FUSE

Author: Vincent Wagelaar / vincent at ricardis tudelft nl

Homepage: http://hannibal.lr-s.tudelft.nl/fusesmb/

Description

    With SMB for Fuse you can seamlessly browse your network
    neighbourhood as were it on your own filesystem.

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Run-Time-Access

Author: Bob Smith / bsmith at linuxtoys org

Homepage: http://www.runtimeaccess.com

Description

    RTA is a specialized memory resident interface to the internal
    data of your application. It is not a stand-alone server but a
    library which attaches to your program and offers up your
    program's internal structures and arrays as tables in a database
    and as files in a virtual file system.

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PhoneBook

Author: David McNab / david at rebirthing co nz

Homepage: http://www.freenet.org.nz/phonebook

Description

    PhoneBook? is expressly designed for use in situations where
    someone can be under pressure (legal, military and/or criminal) to
    disclose decryption keys, and has a 'chaffing' scheme whereby the
    user can disclose only passphrases for non-sensitive material, and
    credibly deny the existence of anything else.

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KIO Fuse Gateway

Author: Alexander Neundorf / neundorf at kde org

Homepage: http://kde.ground.cz/tiki-index.php?page=KIO+Fuse+Gateway

Description

    This gateway makes it possible to mount ioslaves or a general
    ioslave-gateway via fuse and make them this way available to all
    linux apps.

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LUFS bridge

Status: alpha

Author: Miklos Szeredi / miklos at szeredi hu

Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121684&package_id=132803

Description

    This is a modified LUFS daemon, which uses the FUSE kernel
    module. It is binary compatible with existing LUFS filesystems, so
    no recompilation is needed.

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Bluetooth File System

Name: btfs

Author: Collin R. Mulliner / collin at betaversion net

Homepage: http://www.mulliner.org/bluetooth/btfs.php

Description

    Btfs is a simple application to map some basic bluetooth functions
    into the filesystem. With btfs a simple ls DEVICES shows you all
    bluetooth devices within range and cp somefile OPUSH/devicename
    sends the given file to the device.

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mcachefs

Author: Michael Still / mikal at stillhq com

Homepage: http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2004-March/010211.html

Description

    mcachefs is a simple caching filesystem for Linux using FUSE. It
    works by copying the file that you asked for when the file is
    opened, and then using that copy for all subsequent requests for
    the file. This is really a fairly naive approach to caching, and
    will be improved in the future.

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Fusedav

Author: Lennart Poettering / mzshfrqni at 0pointer de

Homepage: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/fusedav/

Description

    fusedav is a Linux userspace file system driver for mounting
    WebDAV shares. It makes use of FUSE as userspace file system API
    and neon as WebDAV API.

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RelFS

Author: Vincenzo Ciancia / vincenzo_ml at yahoo it

Homepage: http://relfs.sourceforge.net/

Description

    This is a linux userspace filesystem using fuse and a relational
    database to store information about files. Special directories can
    represent views on the database, and many powerful features, such
    as bayesian classification, are added through plugins.

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GmailFS

Author: Richard Jones / richard at jones name

Homepage: http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html

Description

    GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your
    Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python
    application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure
    to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with
    Gmail.

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DataDraw

Author: Bill Cox / bill at viasic com

Homepage: http://www.viasic.com/opensource/

Description

    This is an EDA specific data structure diagramming and code
    generation tool.

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gphoto2-fuse-fs

Author: Christopher Lester / lester at hep phy cam ac uk

Homepage: http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/~lester/gphoto2-fuse-fs/

Description

    This program allows mounting a gphoto2 based digital camera so
    that you can access the files via "standard" programs like "ls,
    cat, tar, gthumb, netscape, firefox, etc" rather than just through
    "gtkam and gphoto2"

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CvsFS

Author: Patrick Frank / pfrank at gmx de

Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cvsfs

Description

    This provides a package which presents the CVS contents as
    mountable file system. It allows to view the versioned files as
    like they were ordinary files on a disk. There is also a
    possibility to check in/out some files for editing.

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User-level Versioning File System

Name: Wayback

Author: Brian Cornell / techie at northwestern edu

Homepage: http://wayback.sourceforge.net/

Description

    When you use a Wayback file system, old versions of files are
    never lost. No matter how much you change a file or directory,
    everything is always kept in a versioning file so that you never
    lose important data. Wayback provides the ability to remount any
    already mounted file system with versioning support under a
    different directory.

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Trivial Rolebased Authorisation & Capability Statemachine

Name: TRACS

Author: Rob J Meijer / rmeijer at xs4all nl

Homepage: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rmeijer/tracs.html

Description

    This project is the first spin-off project of the Security
    Incident Policy Enforcement System project. In the process of
    designing a SIPES, the need was recognized for the implementation
    of an authorisation server that provides functionality not
    provided by any of the current authorisation solutions.

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SshFS

Author: Miklos Szeredi / miklos at szeredi hu

Homepage: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

Description

    This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer
    Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it
    is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to
    do. On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as
    logging into the server with ssh.

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Siefs

Author: Dmitry Zakharov aka Chaos / dmitry-z at mail ru

Homepage: http://chaos.allsiemens.com/siefs

Description

    SieFS is a virtual filesystem for accessing Siemens mobile phones'
    memory (flexmem or MultiMediaCard?) from Linux. Now you can mount
    your phone (by datacable or IRDA) and work with it like with any
    other removable storage.

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Offline Media Content Database

Name: MediaDatabase?

Author: Mediadatabase Team

Homepage: http://mediadatabase.sourceforge.net/

Description

    MediaDatabase? is database to store filesystem metadata (directory
    structure) and/or audio tracks descriptions of offline media and
    frontends to database (WWW, GUI and CUI). It was developed to
    fight chaos of large compact disk collection but it can help track
    other removable media such as floppy disks and data DVDs.

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Cddfs

Author: Matthieu Castet

Homepage: http://castet.matthieu.free.fr/cddfs/

Description

    Cddfs is a file system for fuse that use libparanoia in order to
    mount your audio cd.

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SMBNetFS

Author: Mikhail Kshevetskiy / kl at laska dorms spbu ru

Homepage: http://smbnetfs.airm.net/

Description

    SMBNetFS is a Linux filesystem that allow you to use
    samba/microsoft network in the same manner as the network
    neighborhood in Microsoft Windows.

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NTFS-FUSE

Author: Yura Pakhuchiy / pakhuchiy at gmail com

Homepage: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/

Description

    NTFS-FUSE is part of ntfsprogs package (utily name -
    ntfsmount). It's rely on libntfs. NTFS-FUSE support file overwrite
    changing it size and can list/read/write/add/remove named data
    streams via xattr interface.

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BitTorrent File System

Name: BTSlave

Author: Bill Cox / bill at viasic com

Homepage: http://btslave.sourceforge.net/

Description

    BTSlave allows users to mount a BitTorrent? .torrent file as a
    file system.

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GfarmFS

Author: Takuya Ishibashi / takuya at soum co jp

Homepage: http://datafarm.apgrid.org/software/gfarmfs-fuse.en.html

Description

    GfarmFS-FUSE enables you to mount a Gfarm filesystem in
    userspace. Grid Datafarm is a Petascale data-intensive computing
    project initiated in Japan. The challenge involves construction of
    a Peta- to Exascale parallel filesystem exploiting local storages
    of PCs spread over the world-wide Grid.

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Clustered Ordinary Raid Network File System

Name: CORNFS

Author: Ian C. Blenke / icblenke at nks net

Homepage: http://ian.blenke.com/projects/cornfs/cornfs.html

Description

    CORNFS is an attempt at creating a distributed filesystem that
    mirrors N copies of files across a group of M number of
    servers. Everything in CORNFS is stored as a file. At any time, it
    is possible to reconstruct the entire filesystem via a simple
    overlay rsync from the remote filesystems.

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djmount

Author: Rémi Turboult / r3mi at users sourceforge net

Homepage: http://djmount.sourceforge.net

Description

    Djmount allows to mount as a Linux filesystem the content of
    MediaServer? devices compatible with the UPnP AV protocol. It
    discovers automatically all UPnP AV Media Servers on the network,
    and make the content available in a directory tree. An Audio or
    Video file is rendered as a playlist (.m3u or .ram) which contains
    an URL for the file.

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HTTP-FUSE KNOPPIX

Homepage: http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/http-fuse/index-en.html

Description

    HTTP-FUSE-KNOPPIX-4.0 is only 5MB CD image and enables us to use
    same contents of 3.8GB DVD KNOPPIX 4.0. We don't need to download
    3.8GB iso image at one time and burn DVD.

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WikipediaFS

Author: Mathieu Blondel

Homepage: http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net

Description

    WikipediaFS is a mountable Linux virtual file system that enables
    you to deal with Wikipedia articles as though they were real files
    on your hard drive.

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Operating Systems
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Linux-2.4.X

Native port. New FUSE versions (2.X) support kernels 2.4.21 or later.

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Linux-2.6.X

Native port. New FUSE versions (2.X) support all 2.6 kernels.

2.6.14 and up will have FUSE support included in the official kernel.

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FreeBSD

Name: Fuse for FreeBSD

Author: Csaba Henk / csaba-ml at creo hu

Homepage: http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/FuseFilesystem