KernelTrap: Merging FUSE In 2.6.14 | Linux Today

KernelTrap: Merging FUSE In 2.6.14

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 7, 2005

“In a recent thread, Miklos Szeredi provided some usage
statistics for FUSE, the ‘Filesystem in Userspace.’ FUSE is an API
that was originally developed for the AVFS project, and has since
been utilized by a growing range of userland filesystems. It was
merged into Andrew Morton’s -mm kernel in mid January of 2005, and
nearly made it into the mainline 2.6.12 kernel in early March.
Miklos pointed out that the code has been downloaded around 7,000
times in the past three months, is successfully utilized by 27
known userland filesystems, and provides bindings in 7 different
programming languages…”

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