[Portland] PortlandVFSProposal

nf2 nf2 at scheinwelt.at
Sat Jan 7 18:06:58 EET 2006


Hi!

Diego Calleja wrote:

>
>FUSE is a kernel VFS <-> userspace layer which allows to create userspace
>filesystems in a safe way. You can use C and there're bindings for
>C#, Java, python, ruby, haskell, perl, bash scripts, ocaml...
>
>FUSE works today, and the main advantage is that it doesn't needs
>to touch anything, everything will just work, including all gnome and
>KDE apps, and including all the desktops that have no userspace vfs
>infrastructure like XFCE, enlightement and as an extra it already works
>with all the command-line unix programs. unlike other proposals, you
>don't need to port apps to anything else...
>  
>
I have found some old discussion about FUSE here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-vfs-list/2004-December/msg00061.html

Norbert





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