This might not be popular among most Plan9 users, but I started thinking about the possibility of FUSE on Plan9 after seeing the FUSE on WebDAV [1] project. At least on 9front, WebDAV should be integrated in webfs.
Would this theoretically work? The advantage of FUSE is access to a number of popular file systems (most notably ext4, NTFS, ZFS) and also many special- purpose file systems. It feels a bit round-about and wasteful to go via webfs, so I guess the most appropriate method would be to implement a FUSE library directly on top of 9P instead of the kernel VFS - possibly by porting the NetBSD librefuse/libperfused [2] or the OpenBSD libfuse [3]. The disadvantage with this approach is that I am far too inexperienced and have far too little time to actually attempt this. What are your thoughts? Should I try to get the fuse-on-webdav working on Plan9? Any other attempts with a more proper port/implementation already ongoing? 1. https://github.com/rianhunter/davfuse 2. http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?perfused+8+NetBSD-6.0 3. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20131108082749
