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Announce Crossmeta FUSE for Windows

36 points| suprasam | 6 years ago |crossmeta.io

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molticrystal|6 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

suprasam|6 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.

suprasam|6 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...

pepijndevos|6 years ago

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