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Windows File System Proxy - FUSE for Windows
27 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 9 stories, 18 comments · first 2016-07-21 · latest 2026-04-10
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…I am one of the affected developers and my software is the open source file system driver WinFsp: https://github.com/winfsp/winfsp
comment by billziss · 2026-04-10 · in WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution -
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WinFSP: Windows File System Proxy – FUSE for Windowsstory by nateb2022 · 2025-02-24 · 0 comments
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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 -
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WinFsp · Windows File System Proxystory by mariuz · 2023-06-14 · 37 comments
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…file system)." I guess the point is just that WinFsp is fast enough for practical use. [0] https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/blob/master/doc/WinFsp...
comment by jpeloquin · 2021-08-22 · in WinFsp – Windows File System Proxy -
https://www.crossmeta.io/fuse-for-windows/ ? Edit: also on HN’s front page right now: https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp
comment by vlovich123 · 2021-08-22 · in Gitfs: Version Controlled File System -
As for using it to create a new file system, the repository has a basic tutorial for that: https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/blob/master/doc/WinFsp... > What kind of permission granting seances would they have to go through, if any?…
comment by mkotowski · 2021-08-22 · in WinFsp – Windows File System Proxy -
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WinFsp – Windows File System Proxystory by mkotowski · 2021-08-22 · 53 comments
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WinFsp 2021 – FUSE for Windowsstory by smasher164 · 2021-06-08 · 1 comment
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…closed source. Linux and Windows FUSE are still open source: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp
comment by pmiller2 · 2019-12-16 · in Why Fuse became closed source -
https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp https://dokan-dev.github.io/ A few options exist for Windows already, allowing FUSE filesytem code an easy path to run on Windows. I've recently used winfsp + it's sshfs port, and it works pretty well.
comment by jasonjayr · 2019-10-08 · in An Interactive HashiCorp Vault Shell -
It has NO low level fuse api https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/issues/94 Newer FUSE version 3 mostly address their limitations within Linux implementation. It adds support for concurrent writes and large transfer beyond 4KB. Crossmeta…
comment by suprasam · 2019-04-13 · in Announce Crossmeta FUSE for Windows -
…FUSE 3.2 compatibility layer via fuse/fuse.h & fuse3/fuse.h [1] http://www.secfs.net/winfsp/ [2] https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp
comment by molticrystal · 2019-04-13 · in Announce Crossmeta FUSE for Windows -
Thanks. Here is the most updated version of those documents: https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/wiki/WinFsp-Testing
comment by billziss · 2019-03-19 · in Show HN: WinSpd – create “SCSI disks” as user mode processes on Windows -
Should be achievable using winfsp[0]. I will look into it for a future release. [0] https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp
comment by harababurel · 2018-07-01 · in Show HN: Google Drive as a file system -
WinFsp seems pretty good: https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp
comment by icebraining · 2017-09-05 · in WinBtrfs – A Windows driver for the next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs -
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Show HN: Creating a simple file system for Windowsstory by billziss · 2017-02-12 · 4 comments
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Tutorial: creating a simple file system for Windowsstory by billziss · 2017-02-08 · 0 comments
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…WinFsp is tested regularly and rigorously. Please read about the WinFsp Testing Strategy here: https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/wiki/WinFsp-Testing
comment by billziss · 2016-12-14 · in WinFsp – FUSE for Windows – faster Than Dokany -
…. The lock exists on WinFsp/MEMFS. It is just taken in a different place: https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/blob/master/src/dll/fsop.c#L60 > After that you see that dokan is faster to list files ( https://github.com/billziss-gh/
comment by billziss · 2016-12-08 · in WinFsp – FUSE for Windows – faster Than Dokany -
…/billziss-gh/memfs-dokany/commit/03ebaebb1... After that you see that dokan is faster to list files ( https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/commit/595a77bd2e45347... ) You improve YOUR MEMFS winfsp implementation…
comment by IsBisu · 2016-12-08 · in WinFsp – FUSE for Windows – faster Than Dokany -
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WinFsp – FUSE for Windows – faster Than Dokanystory by billziss · 2016-12-07 · 25 comments
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Ask HN: How to get contributions to open source projectstory by billziss · 2016-09-22 · 23 comments
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…the project - they're relying on a commercial sponsor for the signed releases. Alternative: https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp Paid alternative: https://www.eldos.com/cbfs/ There have also been a number of other discussions here, but I…
comment by voltagex_ · 2016-09-22 · in Dokany – User mode file system library for windows with FUSE Wrapper -
…came across this fuse for windows, enabling sshfs, almost as good as NFS in many situations IMHO https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp
comment by ploxiln · 2016-07-23 · in Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux -
…start is the API (I'm somewhat familiar with dokan, used it 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…
comment by malkia · 2016-07-21 · in Windows File System Proxy – FUSE-Like Capability for Windows -
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Windows File System Proxy – FUSE-Like Capability for Windowsstory by voltagex_ · 2016-07-21 · 46 comments