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 grows. Currently ( Sat Sep 5 19:05:24 MSD 2009 ) available the following filesystems:

• afuse
• curlftpfs
• davfs2
• encfs
• funionfs
• fuse-afp
• fuse-convmvfs
• fuse-gmailfs
• fuse-s3fs
• fuse-smb
• fuse-zip
• fusecompress
• fuseiso
• glusterfs-client
• gvfs-fuse
• ifuse
• ltspfs
• ntfs-3g
• obexfs
• sshfs
• wdfs

Also, the following language bindings were providing:

• fuse-python

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.