FUSE (Linux)

FUSE is the Filesystem in Userspace Linux Linux_kernel Module (Linux). This module allows nonprivileged users to create their own filesystems without writing any kernel code.

FUSE is also particularly useful for writing a class of filesystems known as virtual file systems. Such a filesystem does not actually store data itself, but acts as a view or translation of an existing filesystem or storage device.

FUSE used to be part of the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf A Virtual Filesystem (AVFS)] project, but now has its own [http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/ project] on SourceForge.

=See also=

v9fs also allows implementing user space file systems using the 9P protocol.

=External links=

*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/ FUSE web site]

Some examples of virtual filesystems which are based on FUSE:

[http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html SSHFS]: provides access to a remote filesystem through Secure shell

[http://freshmeat.net/projects/encfs EncFS]: an encrypted virtual filesystem