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Encyclopedia > FUSE (Linux)

Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a Free (GPL and LGPL'ed) Unix kernel module that allows non-privileged users to create their own file systems without the need to write any kernel code. This is achieved by running the file system code in user space, while the FUSE module only provides a "bridge" to the actual kernel interfaces. FUSE was officially merged into the mainstream Linux kernel tree in kernel version 2.6.14. The GNU free software logo Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation, is software which can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restriction. ... The GNU logo Wikisource has original text related to this article: GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... GNU logo The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is an FSF approved Free Software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and simple permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the MIT License. ... Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... A module is a self-contained component of a system, which has a well-defined interface to the other components; something is modular if it includes or uses modules which can be interchanged as units without disassembly of the module. ... In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them. ... The kernel is the central part in most computer operating systems because of its task, which is the management of the systems resources and the communication between hardware and software components. ... An operating system usually segregates the available system memory into kernel space and user space. ...


FUSE is not limited to, but particularly useful for writing virtual file systems. As opposed to traditional filesystems which essentially save data to and retrieve data from disk, virtual filesystems do not actually store data themselves. They act as a view or translation of an existing filesystem or storage device. In principle, any resource available to FUSE implementation can be exported as a file system. See Examples for some of the possible applications. A Virtual file system (VFS) or Virtual filesystem switch is an abstraction layer on top of a more concrete file system. ...


The FUSE system was originally part of the A Virtual Filesystem (AVFS) project, but has since split off into its own project on SourceForge. Sourceforge. ...


Examples

  • SSHFS: Provides access to a remote filesystem through SSH
  • GmailFS: Filesystem which stores data as mail in Gmail
  • WikipediaFS: View and edit Wikipedia articles as if they were real files
  • EncFS: Encrypted virtual filesystem
  • ntfsmount: Provides safe, read-write NTFS access from Linux and FreeBSD
  • CurlFtpFS: Provides access to a remote filesystem through libcurl

SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a file system for Linux capable of operating on files on a remote computer using just a secure shell login on the remote computer. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... GmailFS is a virtual filesystem developed by Richard Jones which allows users to mount and use their Gmail email accounts storage as a local disk drive. ... For other uses, see Gmail (disambiguation). ... WikipediaFS is a virtual filesystem which allows users to view and edit Wikipedia (or any Mediawiki-based site) articles as if they were real files on a local disk drive. ... EncFS is a Free (GPLed) FUSE-based filesystem that transparently encrypts files, using an arbitrary folder as storage for the encrypted files. ... Disk encryption is a special case of data at rest protection when the storage media is a sector-addressable device (e. ... cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, Telnet, DICT, FILE and LDAP. cURL supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, Kerberos, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM and Negotiate for HTTP...

See also

  • v9fs also allows implementing user space file systems using the 9P protocol.
  • Davfs2 WebDAV filesystem Linux kernel module

Client and server implementations of the 9P distributed file system protocol for Unix-based operating systems. ... 9P, or the Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol, is a network protocol developed for the Plan 9 distributed operating system as the means of connecting the components of a Plan 9 system (site). ... Davfs2 is a Linux file system driver that allows you to mount a WebDAV server as a local disk drive. ...

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FUSE (Linux) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (260 words)
FUSE was officially merged into the mainstream Linux kernel tree in kernel version 2.6.14.
FUSE is not limited to, but particularly useful for writing virtual file systems.
The FUSE system was originally part of the A Virtual Filesystem (AVFS) project, but has since split off into its own project on SourceForge.
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