On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 08:41:08PM +0545, Prasanna Gautam wrote:
> raise your hand if have ever tried making a filesystem.. hehe.. ok i
> haven't.. although this video deals with macfuse but you know, since it's a
> derivative of libfuse used in linux to mount ntfs partition (with read write
> permissions)... it gives a lot of idea abt FUSE and some samples...
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rss/

Hey pras, 

fuse (File System in User Space) isn't for making a filesystem per
se. What it basically does is overlays on top of existing filesystem
like hpfs,ntfs,sshfs (sshfs depends on libfuse[a fuse library]) and other fs
around. I use it all the time for remote sshfs.

So basically you have a filesystem and u can use fuse to r/w on top of a
filesystem that it manages. So essentially fuse is like a middle man who manages
every r/w to a particular type of file system as in your case a ntfs
filesystem without you having to worry about the underlying parameters.

Cheers.

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