[jira] Resolved: (VFS-92) FUSE integration

["Mario Ivankovits (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-92?page=all ]

Mario Ivankovits resolved VFS-92.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

I think this is totally out of scope of VFS.

The reasons are:

1) FUSE is GPL/LGPL which is a nono for ASF projects. In this case we have to build a JNI bridge - so we really have to link against the FUSE libraries
2) many of VFS's filesystems are already available (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSystems) - so FUSE wont benefit from our VFS
3) Performance will be poor - compared to the native implementations

I admit, such a project has a coolnesfactor, but I think its not very practical, though, hey, you can start up a project on sourceforge :-)

Sorry!
Ciao,
Mario

> FUSE integration
> ----------------
>
>                 Key: VFS-92
>                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-92
>             Project: Commons VFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Elifarley Callado Coelho
>
> Integrating FUSE (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/) and Commons-VFS would ease the creation of new file system drivers for the GNU/linux and FreeBSD platforms.
> Besides, it would be really cool to mount a partition whose handling is done in Java ;-)

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