dokany VS ifuse

It's not really the same though. A Projected File System copies the files from the backing store to somewhere on the local file system when requested and then performs IO normally on the local files.

For an actual implementation of userspace filesystems on Windows see dokany: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany

Now that you are inside the Mirror folder with cmd, let’s start the Mirror function to attach a NAS or cloud folder as a local disk in order to get recognized by the BB client and be backed up. Write something like (read the dokany documentation for more details here): mirror.exe /r x:\ /l m , where x:\ should be the letter of the folder attached with Raidrive and m:\ the letter you want to assign to the new local disk.

I lead a project that included shipping a filesystem driver and a virtual disk on Windows.

What I did to learn the lower-level APIs, and perform initial testing on the driver, was write a "mirror" drive. The user-mode code pointed to a folder on disk, the driver made a virtual disk drive, and all reads and writes in the virtual disk drive went to the mirror folder.

On Windows, you can implement something like that using Dokany, Dokan, or Winfsp. On linux, there's the Fuse API. On Mac, there's MacFUSE.

Even if you don't do a "mirror" drive, understanding the callbacks that libraries like Dokany, Dokan, Winfsp, and Fuse do helps you understand how IO happens in the driver. Many IO methods provided in popular languages provide abstractions above what the OS does. (For example, the Windows kernel has no concept of the "Stream" that's in your C# program. The "Stream"'s Position property is purely a construct within the .Net framework.)

https://dokan-dev.github.io/

https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany

https://osxfuse.github.io/

Another place to start is the OS's documentation itself. For example, you can start with Window's CreateFileA function. This typically is what gets called "under the hood" in most programming languages when you open or create a file: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/...

You'll need this ressource installed in 1.X version to make it work : https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany

Potentially no need to buy any hardware https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany/wiki/Use-Mirror-example

Yeah, I had an issue and had to downgrade the Dokan Library. I downloaded from here.

I've been using ifuse on Linux for years.

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse

I type "ifuse /mnt/iphone" and there is a DCIM/###APPLE dir with the images and videos where I use "cp -a" to copy the files to my computer

That directory doesn't work with Möbius Sync however, it gives an error when you try to set it as the local path for sync. Also, I can't figure out how to access that from Linux via ifuse: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse/issues/58

> Also can't even copy files off device easily.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33898890.

> Can't put custom apps on devices easily.

You will, from May, thanks to the EU Digital Markets act.

> [...] simple tasks like....copying photos to a usb...browsing files on my phone on a pc.

You can do this with ifuse: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse - used it literally 2 days ago to back up a couple tens of GB of photos and videos. Works great.

ifuse is way betteer

Linux I use https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse