From: Greg Millam <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-09-19T22:29:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FuseFS-0.1

(Another mini announcement already? Yow!)

FuseFS now has a project page on rubyforge:

Please download FuseFS from there, to ease bandwidth off my home server =).

   http://rubyforge.org/projects/fusefs/

- Greg

Greg Millam wrote:
> Whoops! I've made a mistake in the packaging. As a result, I've fixed 
> it, and releasing it as another version: FuseFS-0.2 (less than 2 hours 
> later ... Yow! But don't worry, it wasn't a serious mistake, it would 
> just call root.remove rather than root.delete as it should have, which 
> was a minor API change I made for the release. )
> 
>   http://walker.deafcode.com/code/fusefs-0.2.tar.gz
> 
> Also included with this version is sample/yamlfs.rb - You can define a 
> filesystem in a YAML file of Hashes and Strings! Editable, too. (dirs == 
> hashes, files == strings)
> 
> - Greg
> 
> Greg Millam wrote:
> 
>> Howdy -
>>
>>   FuseFS lets ruby programmers define filesystems entirely in Ruby. 
>> That is - with FuseFS, you can now create a virtual filesystem out of 
>> ruby objects, SQL databases, anything!
>>
>>   FUSE is a Linux kernel module + library that permits programmers to 
>> do this without directly implementing anything in the kernel. (FUSE is 
>> what permits SSHFS and GMailFS in Python - Surely we can do better!)
>>
>>   Sample proof-of-concept virtual filesystems include:
>>
>>     "dictfs": The entire contents of dict.org's definitions are 
>> available at your fingertips! Mount it on a directory and "cat 
>> mountpoint/hacker" to see definitions from the Jargon file, Webster's 
>> dictionary, Free online computing dictionary, and more! (requires 
>> ruby-dict)
>>
>>     "sqlfs": browse your databases rows and columns as 
>> mountpoint/tablename/<primary key>/field ! With full read-write 
>> support, you can edit your table entries in your favorite editor! 
>> (requires ruby-mysql)
>>
>> Have I got your "oh the possibilities" creative juices flowing yet? 
>> Well it's here and ready for the taking:
>>
>>   http://walker.deafcode.com/code/fusefs-0.1.tar.gz
>>
>> You will need:
>>
>>   * Linux with a 2.6 kernel
>>   * FUSE. On gentoo, this is as simple as: "emerge sys-fs/fuse"
>>
>> You can read: README.txt and API.txt for how to quickly get set up.
>>
>> Do note: This is a very preliminary version, and only something I've 
>> been hacking on a few hours a day since Wednesday. If you spot a bug, 
>> have a suggestion for a change, or want something with it, just email 
>> me - I'm open to suggestions, and I'm not locking its API down anytime 
>> soon.
>>
>> - Greg Millam
>>
> 
>