[Novalug] fuse

Stuart D. Gathman stuart@gathman.org
Tue Nov 6 16:16:18 EST 2007


On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, DonJr wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 20:30 -0500, Brian Little wrote:
>> adequate documentation on it though.  I was wondering if anyone is
>> familiar with fuse and can shed some light on this utility for me please?
>
> Are you talking about "sshfs - mount filesystems over ssh protocol"?
...
> The current version of 'sshfs' uses 'fuse'. The following is a

FUSE lets filesystems run in userspace.  This adds overhead, but also
safety and ease of implementation.  The overhead is negligible when the
filesystem requires heavy network/CPU overhead anyway.  My favorite FUSE app is
mp3fs.  Use mp3fs to mount a directory of FLAC files as a directory of MP3
files.  They are translated on the fly as files are read.  So I just drag and
drop from my online CD collection to my MP3 player.  The MP3 format never
exists on the server.

I would *love* to have AFS or other distributed filesystem implemented in
FUSE.  Everyone (well almost) has 500GB+ USB drives attached to their
Linux system - so a distributed system shares that space with geographically
diverse peers for backup.  Up to some configurable fraction of the peers can
get wiped out by terrorists, and the survivors can still access all their data.

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