Filesystem in Userspace

FUSE ( Filesystem in Userspace ) is a kernel module for Unix systems, which makes it possible to relocate the file system driver from kernel mode to user mode. It thus allows non-privileged users to mount its own file systems. With the help of FUSE can under GNU / Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris or Mac OS X, most existing file systems such as NTFS or UDF embed.

Due to the use of the usual for normal user-mode application programs - due to which the program code does not deal with the limitations and peculiarities of the kernel - mode - is a variety of drivers emerged. Some of these file system driver form instead of hard disks and other storage media all other data structures in the form of a navigable file system from.

Known file systems and drivers

  • NTFS access Captive - allowing secure write access to NTFS partitions by integration of the Genuine Windows ntfs.sys driver by means of a compatibility layer
  • NTFS-3G
  • Ntfsmount ( from the Linux ntfs- project ) allows you to mount NTFS partitions with write support

History

On 15 October 2004, the FUSE project was founded on SourceForge, arising as a variant of the SHFS project. Since January 15, 2005, was part of the mm kernel before it was included in the official Linux kernel 2.6.14 on 13 September 2005.

Loadable kernel module Captive NTFS EncFS GmailFS SSHFS Secure Shell Common Development and Distribution License Google Summer of Code WebDAV GlusterFS Clustered file system gPhoto FTPFS October 15 September 13 IBM
333958
de