created

2017-05-25

updated

2018-03-28

license

Simplified BSD

status

master:

dev:

test:

This document is on the current implementation, see also intro.

Examples:

python x-fuse.py /tmp/x-fuse/ "OSPassthrough('$PWD')"
python x-fuse.py /tmp/x-fuse "OSStack('$PATH')"
python x-fuse.py /tmp/x-fuse "HideBrokenSymlinks('$PWD')"

Generic invocation takes a python expression to initialize filesystem:

python x-fuse.py ./my/path/to/mount/ "<FSType>(<FSArgs>)" [ FSName [ PIDFile ]]

These environment variables are picked up to customize FUSE behaviour; defaults:

X_FUSE_THREADS=false
X_FUSE_BACKGROUND=true

make test

• can't test pyvfs and py9p on OSX:

  $ mount -t 9p -o ro,port=10001 127.0.0.1 /mnt/py9p-test/
  mount: exec /Library/Filesystems/9p.fs/Contents/Resources/mount_9p for
  /mnt/py9p-test: No such file or directory

• gdrivefs must be compiled, which it doesn't manage on my OSX/Darwin.

• Add-in LoggingMixIn, see fusepy/examples.
• Build a slightly more complex OSPassthrough with path renames/filtering. Besides names also may want to map or filter on type (file/dir/special), size, access mode.
• May want to have a go with other libs: (py)vfs/objfs, py9p. fusecry seems to install cleanly also.

Some other things to look at. At PyPi¹², at GitHub³.

• gdrivefs 0.14.8 access Google drive
• mockfs 1.0.2
• SVFS 2.0.0 - Multi-purpose virtual file system inside single file
• fusecry 0.11.2 - Encrypted filesystem and encryption tool based on FUSE and AES.
• CouchDB-FUSE 0.2dev mount and edit CouchDB attachments

On a sidenode, PyFilesystem is a suite aiming to bring a universal file-like interface regardless of the reality.⁴ Very neat, does it mount too?