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:


 * - An automounter implemented with FUSE
 * - a desktop toolset for managing your BlackBerry device
 * - allows you to mirror a directory and also change the the permissions in the mirror directory.
 * - a filesystem for accessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl
 * - a filesystem driver for WebDAV
 * - Encrypted pass-thru filesystem in userspace
 * - Union filesystem in userspace
 * - an application that let the user mount a Windows CE based device
 * - Apple Filing Protocol client
 * - a filesystem to convert filesystem encodings
 * - a filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium.
 * - a filesystem using Amazon Simple Storage Service as storage
 * - a filesystem to fast and easy access remote resources via SMB
 * - a fs to navigate, extract, create and modify ZIP archives
 * - a filesystem which transparently compresses its content.
 * - a filesystem for accessing ISO images.
 * - Cluster File System
 * - FUSE support for gvfs
 * - a filesystem for mounting iPhone and iPod touch devices
 * - Fuse based remote filesystem for LTSP thin clients
 * - NTFS userspace driver
 * - a filesystem to access to mobile phones.
 * - a filesystem to access remote filesystems via SSH
 * - a filesystem that makes it possible to mount a WebDAV share under Linux.

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 adds the following:

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