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User mode file system library for windows with FUSE Wrapper

25 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 4 stories, 21 comments · first 2015-11-11 · latest 2025-01-30

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  1. …But there's hope. You can use yasfw with dokany (dokan fork). https://github.com/DDoSolitary/yasfw https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany Or mount from inside WSL.
    comment by zxvkhkxvdvbdxz · 2025-01-30 · in I still like Sublime Text
  2. There seem to be two popular FUSE-like things for Windows: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany and https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp . Both implement a FUSE compatibility API in addition to their own API. A 2016 comparison by the developer…
    comment by networked · 2024-11-16 · in Pex: A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs
  3. …you mentioned Dokany[0] I'll also throw out a shout for WinFsp[1] as a similar project, too. [0] https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany [1] https://winfsp.dev/
    comment by EvanAnderson · 2024-02-22 · in Projected File System
  4. …Position property is purely a construct within the .Net framework.) https://dokan-dev.github.io/ https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany https://osxfuse.github.io/ Another place to start is the OS's documentation itself. For example, you can…
    comment by gwbas1c · 2023-05-26 · in Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about low level disk/file IO?
  5. Good call. and it looks like it attempts to be compatible with FUSE 2.7 https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/blob/master/dokan_fuse/i... I used to use Dokan based program for mounting ftp.
    comment by molticrystal · 2019-04-13 · in Announce Crossmeta FUSE for Windows
  6. Dokany, a fork of Dokan is a very active project these days https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
    comment by olavgg · 2019-03-19 · in Show HN: WinSpd – create “SCSI disks” as user mode processes on Windows
  7. …userspace filesystem implementations for Windows. Dokany¹ even implements most of the FUSE API. 1. https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
    comment by PeCaN · 2018-07-14 · in XARs: An efficient system for self-contained executables
  8. There is a "sort-of" port (you were correct in saying a "similar thing for Windows"). It's Dokany: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany Keybase.io and sshfs use it, currently. Personally, I love it. I'm sure you're right about performance…
    comment by mdip · 2017-09-06 · in WinBtrfs – A Windows driver for the next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs
  9. …of work. We used FUSE on Linux, and Dokan FUSE on Windows. [1] https://dokan-dev.github.io/ [2] https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/wiki/FUSE
    comment by zintinio5 · 2017-02-04 · in Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
  10. …to use in production. I'll just point out for anyone interested in trying this, expect BSODs: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/issues/344 . I'm also not sure how the Win10 Anniversary driver signing changes have affected the project -…
    comment by voltagex_ · 2016-09-22 · in Dokany – User mode file system library for windows with FUSE Wrapper
  11. List of unsupported features and alternatives - https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/wiki/Unsupported
    comment by yarapavan · 2016-09-21 · in Dokany - The windows OS FUSE Wrapper
  12. Dokan Library (think FUSE for Windows) needs a new logo for their upcoming 1.0.0 release. https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/issues/243
    comment by Rondom · 2016-08-27 · in Offer HN: Free logo design for an open source project
  13. …LGPL/MIT-dual licensed though, so probably would just use that if I were building in this space: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
    comment by WorldMaker · 2016-07-21 · in Windows File System Proxy – FUSE-Like Capability for Windows
  14. …several years ago for some project) https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/blob/master/inc/winfsp... https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/blob/master/dokan/dokan.... It's really the edge cases that one might run into, where things no longer…
    comment by malkia · 2016-07-21 · in Windows File System Proxy – FUSE-Like Capability for Windows
  15. It's worth mentioning than Dokany also provides a FUSE compatible API, see https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
    comment by bpye · 2016-06-19 · in FUSE for Windows/Cygwin now available
  16. …know something like Dokany[0] was even possible on Windows, let alone being already available! [0]: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
    comment by patates · 2016-04-29 · in Infinit announces Project Dropboxe
  17. …probably didn't) or god knows what you have to do to get OS X to support user-space filesystems. 1. https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
    comment by PeCaN · 2016-04-26 · in Dropbox Project Infinite
  18. Note that there seems to be a FUSE API wrapper too. https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/wiki/FUSE I wonder how well this works.
    comment by leni536 · 2016-04-04 · in Dokan – User Mode File Systems on Windows
  19. …[2] or Reddit [3]. [2]: https://github.com/HackerNews/API [3]: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api [1]: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
    comment by voltagex_ · 2016-02-27 · in After fifteen years of downtime, the MetaFilter gopher server is back
  20. There is also a similar project for Windows called Dokany ( https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany ). It is actively being developed, and they even have a FUSE API wrapper.
    comment by trendnet · 2016-01-12 · in Write a filesystem with FUSE
  21. …a Windows filesystem with Dokan [0] and I'm sure Jeff from ExpanDrive [1] is looking at it too! 0: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany 1: http://www.expandrive.com/
    comment by voltagex_ · 2015-11-11 · in Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0