User:Peter/FUSE

About

FUSE stands for Filesystem in USErspace, a mechanism to allow unprivileged user to mount different filesystems w/o hitting kernel too much. See its homepage and dedicated page on Wikipedia.

Status

Fedora ships with FUSE since FC-4. It consists from the in-kernel module, the main package, called fuse, the fuse-devel subpackage (intended only for developers) and fuse-libs package. The split of package into fuse and fuse-libs was made due to different licensing schemes - fuse-libs licensed under LGPLv2+ while fuse licensed under GPL+.

RHEL provides in-kernel FUSE module since version 5.4.

Available filesystems

The number of FUSE-based filesystems, available in Fedora, steadily growing. Currently ( Sat Sep 5 19:05:24 MSD 2009 ) the following filesystems are available:

• afuse - An automounter implemented with FUSE
• curlftpfs - a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl
• davfs2 - a filesystem driver for WebDAV
• encfs - Encrypted pass-thru filesystem in userspace
• funionfs - Union filesystem in userspace
• fuse-afp - Apple Filing Protocol client
• fuse-convmvfs - a filesystem to convert filesystem encodings
• fuse-gmailfs - a filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium.
• fuse-s3fs - a filesystem using Amazon Simple Storage Service as storage
• fuse-smb - a filesystem to fast and easy access remote resources via SMB
• fuse-zip - a fs to navigate, extract, create and modify ZIP archives
• fusecompress - a filesystem which transparently compresses its content.
• fuseiso - a filesystem for accessing ISO images.
• glusterfs-client - Cluster File System
• gvfs-fuse - FUSE support for gvfs
• ifuse - a filesystem for mounting iPhone and iPod touch devices
• ltspfs - Fuse based remote filesystem for LTSP thin clients
• ntfs-3g - NTFS userspace driver
• obexfs - a filesystem to access to mobile phones.
• sshfs - a filesystem to access remote filesystems via SSH
• wdfs

Also, the following language bindings were providing:

• fuse-python

Packaging rules

Due to splitting the main package into fuse and fuse-libs, every filesystem, based on FUSE, must explicitly adds the following:

Requires: fuse

to the head of its spec-file. The fuse-libs part will be automatically picked up by rpmbuild.