Announce Crossmeta FUSE for Windows

https://www.crossmeta.io/fuse-for-windows/

by suprasam • 7 years ago

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NonEUCitizen• 7 years ago

What is the license for the entire project? Can you add some description of license to the github README.md?

rmist• 7 years ago

LGPL: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/blob/master/LICENSE

molticrystal2• 7 years ago

Since the place is being hugged to death as of this comment, I found an archive http://archive.ph/ZgDeT

For those looking at alternatives there is WinFSP [1] source code [2]. It is dual licensed as Open Source GPLv3 and Commercial and includes a FUSE 2.8 and FUSE 3.2 compatibility layer via fuse/fuse.h & fuse3/fuse.h

[1] http://www.secfs.net/winfsp/

[2] https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp

EvilTerran• 7 years ago

Speaking of alternatives, there's also Dokan:

https://dokan-dev.github.io/

eps• 7 years ago

That's hardly an "alternative". It's basically one of the oldest and more mature projects in the area. I remember prototyping things with it 10 or so years ago and it was already of a very good quality.

molticrystal2• 7 years ago

Good call. and it looks like it attempts to be compatible with FUSE 2.7 https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/blob/master/dokan_fuse/i...

I used to use Dokan based program for mounting ftp.

suprasam4• 7 years ago

It has NO low level fuse api https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/issues/94

Newer FUSE version 3 mostly address their limitations within Linux implementation. It adds support for concurrent writes and large transfer beyond 4KB. Crossmeta FUSE is look alike of Linux FUSE but the implementation does not inherit those limitations. It requires to do large concurrent transfer 128KB from Windows NT cache manager. I have to work the sshfs code to handle this since it was not exposed to such large transfer.

pepijndevos• 7 years ago

All I want is ext4 support from something. It looks like this might be able to do it with enough effort?

xobs• 7 years ago

I've had reasonable luck with ext2fsd (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/files/Ext2fsd/0.68/). I've never gotten the latest version -- 0.69 -- to work, because I don't think it's signed, but I use 0.68 with Windows 10 without issue.

suprasam4• 7 years ago

Crossmeta kernel has read/write support for XFS and EXT2/3/4 It has readonly support for reiserfs,Apple HFS+ All kernel drivers can be unloaded when not in use.

From FUSE it has support for sshfs and NFS client V3 and V4.

suprasam4• 7 years ago

The fun part is you can even develop from Linux using MinGW32 Cross Compile environment which produces native windows programs.

Crossmeta FUSE also includes sshfs, fuse-nfs for remote file access and s3backer to connect to any S3 compatible cloud storage.

All Crossmeta File systems fully visible to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) but integration can be better with your help by voting on https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-con...

Announce Crossmeta FUSE for Windows

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