[Fsp-users] FSP filesystem via FUSE?

[Stefan B. <sb...@fr...>]

Hello all

Do you know a FSP filesystem implementation which you could mount via
FUSE? If not, then this is a feature request. ;-)

After experimenting a bit with FSP I thought FSP would gain more users
if they could mount it into the directory tree. It's much less pain for
navigation on the FSP server and for file transfers (it would be
possible to access the files the same way as they were on the local
harddisk). Direct playing media files from the FSP server would be cool,
but perhaps FSP is too slow for this even on a LAN. Or client-side
caching and read-ahead could solve this problem.


After going through the python files of FSP
<http://fsp.bzr.sourceforge.net/bzr/fsp/pyfsp/files/3> I remembered the
easy way to write a FUSE filesystem with Python:
<http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=SimpleFilesystemHowto>
Many methods of your pyfsp client program would be useful for a FSP-FUSE
filesystem.

I'm writing myself a FUSE filesystem with Python as small
"quick-and-dirty" prototype project in my freetime, but it's my first
Python program and it's not yet usable. But I'm impressed about Python
and FUSE. :-)


PS: There is MacFUSE and a Windows solution <http://dokan-dev.net/en/>
too; IMO such a user mode filesystem would really extend the usage of
FSP.


Greetings,
Stefan Braun.