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 FUSEapfs-fuse
- A read-only FUSE driver for Apple's APFSarchivemount
- FUSE based filesystem for mounting compressed archivesbarry
- a desktop toolset for managing your BlackBerry devicebindfs
- allows you to mirror a directory and also change the the permissions in the mirror directorybtrfs-fuse
- Read-only, license friendly, FUSE based btrfs implementationceph-fuse
- Ceph fuse-based clientchunkfs
- FUSE based filesystem that allows you to mount an arbitrary file or block devicecurlftpfs
- a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurldavfs2
- a filesystem driver for WebDAVdisorderfs
- FUSE filesystem that introduces non-determinismencfs
- Encrypted pass-thru filesystem in userspaceerofs-fuse
- FUSE support for mounting EROFS imagesfunionfs
- Union filesystem in userspacefuse-afp
- Apple Filing Protocol clientfuse-btfs
- FUSE filesystem Bittorrentfuse-convmvfs
- a filesystem to convert filesystem encodingsfuse-dislocker
- FUSE filesystem to access BitLocker encrypted volumesfuse-gmailfs
- a filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage mediumfuse-overlayfs
- FUSE overlay+shiftfs implementation for rootless containersfuse-pingfs
- Stores your data in ICMP ping packetsfuse-s3fs
- a filesystem using Amazon Simple Storage Service as storagefuse-smb
- a filesystem to fast and easy access remote resources via SMBfuse-zip
- a fs to navigate, extract, create and modify ZIP archivesfusecompress
- a filesystem which transparently compresses its contentfuseiso
- a filesystem for accessing ISO imagesFUR
- an application that let the user mount a Windows CE based deviceglusterfs-client
- Cluster File Systemgphotofs
- A FUSE filesystem module to mount your camera as a filesystemgvfs-fuse
- FUSE support for gvfsifuse
- a filesystem for mounting iPhone and iPod touch devicesjmtpfs
- FUSE and libmtp based filesystem for accessing MTP deviceskio-fuse
- KIO FUSEltspfs
- Fuse based remote filesystem for LTSP thin clientslxcfs
- FUSE based filesystem for LXCmp3fs
- FUSE filesystem to transcode FLAC to MP3 on the flynbdfuse
- FUSE support for libnbdntfs-3g
- NTFS userspace driverobexfs
- a filesystem to access to mobile phonesorangefs-fuse
- Parallel network file system FUSE clientrbd-fuse
- Ceph fuse-based clients3fs-fuse
- FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3sshfs
- a filesystem to access remote filesystems via SSHsquashfuse
- FUSE filesystem to mount squashfs archiveswdfs
- a filesystem that makes it possible to mount a WebDAV share under Linuxxrootd-fuse
- Xrootd FUSE toolzfs-fuse
- ZFS ported to Linux FUSE
Also, the following language bindings were providing:
fuse-python
perl-Fuse
- Write filesystems in Perl using FUSEpython3-fusepy
- Python module that provides a simple interface to FUSE and MacFUSEpython3-llfuse
- Python Bindings for the low-level FUSE API Python 3.12 packages
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.