Fuse and GnomeVFS in Edgy
Lukas Sabota
punkrockguy318 at comcast.net
Fri Jun 23 03:50:34 BST 2006
Hey,
I was browsing around the internet earlier today, and I checking out a
couple interesting technologies: FUSE[1] and gnomevfs-fuse[2]. If you
are unfimiliar, fuse can mount different sorts of filesystems in
usersapce, rather than kernel space. GnomeVFS-fuse is an application
that uses the fuse library to mount any gnomevfs URI. Any kind of media
you can mount in gnome (ftp, ssh, smb) can be mounted and used like a
normal directory.
There is a currently a gap between the GUI and the command-line in
this area. You can mount many things very easily in GNOME (cameras,
network shares, etc), but they can not be accessed through the terminal
without using seperate programs. It would be intuitive to be able to
mount anything like a filesystem, and use the same commands for file
management.
Has anything like this been considered for Edgy? It would be nice to
be able to mount any volume (in GNOME or the command-line) and be able
to access it with the tools that one's used to (nautilus and bash,
persay). Reply with thoughts on this idea.
God bless,
Lukas
[1] http://fuse.sourceforge.net
[2] http://sole.infis.univ.ts.it/~chri/gnome-vfs-fuse-0.1.tar.gz
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