yeah.. i know.. basically it brings FS into user space which makes doing things a lot easier.. instead of hard coding a kernel module.. (btw did i paste the developer works link ? here's the video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjdp70474LE
On 6/21/07, nepbabu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
