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Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE)

FUSE is an operating system mechanism for Unix-like computer operating systems that lets non-privileged users create their own file systems without editing kernel code. This is achieved by running file system code in user space while the FUSE module provides only a "bridge" to the actual kernel interfaces.

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Is it possible to use FUSE with Windows?

(FUSE). Preferably without admin rights. An example would be sshfs, maybe via MSYS?
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Is it possible to mount a .tar file?

The only result of any import when I searched for this was from 2001. In the intervening decade, have any tools/methods for mounting a tar file as a filesystem (perhaps utilizing fuse) been created? If so, what are they, and how do they work?
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Automount sshfs using fstab without mount -a

Please consider following fstab line (line breaks for readability): sshfs#user@192.168.1.123:/home/user/ /home/user/Server/ fuse auto,user,_netdev,reconnect,uid=1000,gid=1000,IdentityFile=/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa,idmap=user,allow_other 0 It…
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How do I make sshfs work in Debian? (I get /dev/fuse: Permission denied )

I've moved from Ubuntu to Debian on a machine and all my sshfs mounting scripts fail with fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied now. Am I missing something simple?
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Getting `sshfs` working on WSL or finding an alternative

My university's CS department has its own server used for development (from here on out, dev.univ.edu). I have SSH and SFTP access to this server, and I was hoping to do some heavy work on my Windows laptop using WSL. My plan was to use sshfs to…
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Reading an encfs volume from Windows?

I've been looking into encfs as a solution to encrypt my personal data. However I want to access this data both on Linux and Windows on different machines (synced through Dropbox). So far all Google searches have brought up pages which specify that…
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Why is "sudo unmount" required for unmounting an sshfs-mount if it was mounted without sudo privilges?

I have an sshfs FUSE filesystem mounted in ~/mountpoint. I tried umount mountpoint and diskutil unmount mountpoint (on a Mac here) and both failed. I used sshfs -o IdentityFile= user@hostname:/home/ ~/mountpoint; none of that required…
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Translate permissions with as sshfs remote mount?

I have two computers on a network, call these Q and X. I want to mount via sshfs X:/ to Q:/mnt/X. So to do this I use: user@Q $ sudo sshfs root:X/ /mnt/X This successfully mounts it and allows the files to be visible to root@Q. However if I…
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sshfs: cannot set file timestamp

Using sshfs with autofs on Ubuntu, I cannot set timestamps on remote files: $ touch /sshfs/server/some/file touch: setting times of `/sshfs/sshfs/server/some/file': Permission denied I do have write access to the file. The problem surfaced because…
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FUSE fs without root privileges (e.g. a LD_PRELOAD gateway or a proot plugin)

On a system where I don't have root access and FUSE isn't installed (or I don't have sufficient privileges to create new mounts), how can I start a fuse filesytem (like sshfs or some FUSE-based unionfs) and access it from (neraly) any program as…
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Expose fuse mounted inside a docker container

I'm trying to run a docker image for mounting hubic (online storage) and expose that to the host What is working so far is container mounting the fuse point correctly (to /mnt/hubic) When running docker I am attempting to run with volume mapped as…
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mhddfs+osxfuse via fstab?

I'm trying to create a virtual drive pool using FUSE for OS X and mhddfs. This command works for me: sudo mhddfs /Volumes/D01,/Volumes/D12,/Volumes/D103,/Volumes/D110 /mnt/DrivePoolA -o allow_other,volname=DrivePoolA However, I believe I should…
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How to properly start gvfs without gnome?

I have a Debian testing box with Xfce (no Gnome, no Nautilus). It has all gvfs-related stuff installed, including all backends and fuse interface. But any attempts to gvfs-mount anything (like sftp://... or smb://...) fail with error opening file:…
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Where are programs that use CUSE (character in user space)?

cusexmp, the example of CUSE program, works. Is there real programs that makes use of it? For example, a thing that just mirrors other character device or thing that allows networked character devices.
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What is the difference from exfat-fuse and exfat-nofuse?

Until now I have never dwelled on the word fuse but then I saw that there is nofuse. Based on searches I have done in the the internet they don't clearly explain the difference. What is the difference between fuse and nofuse? For example, what does…
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