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Build a FUSE plugin

February 12, 2016

Ok, go ahead. Build a filesystem, using FUSE and the bindings for your favorite language. You could use Python, or Ruby, or Go, or Lua, or JavaScript, or… really, just about any language out there. So give it a shot. It’s stupidly fun.

WTF is FUSE?

Filesystems in Userspace
aka, really easy to write custom filesystem - bindings for nearly every language imaginable
implement a class consisting of up two dozen familiar POSIX methods such as mkdir, rename, symlink, open, read, write, etc. - basic filesystem in 50 lines of code or less
not unlike implementing a REST api - a hierarchy (file paths, URLs), using a simple set of verbs to manipulate the documents
like REST, you can do a lot with the basic concepts of directories and files - the unix philosophy, eg.: /dev/random, /dev/lp0, /dev/audio, /dev/rtc
GDriveFS, TweetFS, WikipediaFS, and many other awesome examples </ul>
Resources
- Python: python-fuse-filesystem and writing-a-fuse-filesystem-in-python
- JavaScript: fuse4js and fusejs and fuse-bindings
- seriously, just Google it

WTF is FUSE?

Resources