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 FUSEcurlftpfs
- a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurldavfs2
- A filesystem driver for WebDAVencfs
- Encrypted pass-thru filesystem in userspacefunionfs
- Union filesystem in userspacefuse-afp
- Apple Filing Protocol clientfuse-convmvfs
- Filesystem to convert filesystem encodingsfuse-gmailfs
- a filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium.fuse-s3fs
- filesystem using Amazon Simple Storage Service as storagefuse-smb
- 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 content.fuseiso
- a filesystem for accessing ISO images.glusterfs-client
- Cluster File Systemgvfs-fuse
- FUSE support for gvfsifuse
- a filesystem for mounting iPhone and iPod touch devicesltspfs
ntfs-3g
- NTFS userspace driverobexfs
- a filesystem to access to mobile phones.sshfs
- a filesystem to access remote filesystems via SSHwdfs
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.