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libfuse

This repo was forked from https://github.com/osxfuse/fuse

The following changes were made to the original project:

  1. Build system changed to cmake
  2. Only relevant sources included
  3. Necessary code changes to replace the kernel driver backend with NFS server

About

FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is an interface for userspace programs to export a filesystem to the Linux kernel. The FUSE project consists of two components: the fuse kernel module (maintained in the regular kernel repositories) and the libfuse userspace library (maintained in this repository). libfuse provides the reference implementation for communicating with the FUSE kernel module.

A FUSE file system is typically implemented as a standalone application that links with libfuse. libfuse provides functions to mount the file system, unmount it, read requests from the kernel, and send responses back. libfuse offers two APIs: a "high-level", synchronous API, and a "low-level" asynchronous API. In both cases, incoming requests from the kernel are passed to the main program using callbacks. When using the high-level API, the callbacks may work with file names and paths instead of inodes, and processing of a request finishes when the callback function returns. When using the low-level API, the callbacks must work with inodes and responses must be sent explicitly using a separate set of API functions.

Installation

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Building your own filesystem

FUSE comes with several example file systems in the examples directory. For example, the fusexmp example mirrors the contents of the root directory under the mountpoint. Start from there and adapt the code!

The documentation of the API functions and necessary callbacks is mostly contained in the files include/fuse.h (for the high-level API) and include/fuse_lowlevel.h (for the low-level API). An autogenerated html version of the API is available in the doc/html directory and at http://libfuse.github.io/doxygen.

Getting Help

If you need help, please ask on the fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list (subscribe at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fuse-devel).

Please report any bugs on the GitHub issue tracker at https://github.com/libfuse/main/issues.