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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 ) available the following filesystems:

  • 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:

Packaging rules

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

Requires: fuse

to the head of its spec-file.

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