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Top 23 C Filesystem Projects
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Project mention: Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-26
I use https://github.com/jarun/nnn/ with `cd` on quit if I need to scan around manually. Otherwise, zoxide.
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CodeRabbit
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Project mention: WinFSP: Windows File System Proxy – FUSE for Windows | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-23
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IMO remote mounts is a feature of the OS.
For Windows, just use yasfw with dokany
https://github.com/DDoSolitary/yasfw
https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany
Or mount from inside WSL.
For Linux and macOS, you can mount ssh directly.
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See the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38113396 for a list of alternatives. I used https://github.com/sahib/rmlint in the past and can't complain.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
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MooseFS
MooseFS Distributed Storage – Open Source, Petabyte, Fault-Tolerant, Highly Performing, Scalable Network Distributed File System / Software-Defined Storage
Project mention: Ask HN: What distributed file system would you use in 2024? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-10 -
minixfromscratch
Development and compilation setup for the book versions of MINIX (2.0.0 and 3.1.0) on QEMU
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Project mention: fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-19
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httpdirfs
A filesystem which allows you to mount HTTP directory listings or a single file, with a permanent cache. Now with Airsonic / Subsonic support!
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Project mention: Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS, etc.) to CNCF | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-14
Composefs has a totally crucial feature that sold me immediately, which is that if two containers use the same file, the kernel can serve that file from the same page cache. This means you can hypothetically launch a lot of containers, and if they share some layers/base images, the memory usage can still be quite reasonable. Nice. https://github.com/containers/composefs?tab=readme-ov-file#b...
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microshell
MicroShell is a lightweight pure C implementation of shell emulator dedicated for embedded bare-metal systems.
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C Filesystem related posts
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Hyperspace
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WinFSP: Windows File System Proxy – FUSE for Windows
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Carving ELF Files
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Show HN: Xcapture-bpf – like Linux top, but with x-ray vision
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The File Filesystem
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OpenBSD 7.5 Released
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LittleFS Design (CObW) – Combining advantages of COW and log-structures
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Filesystem projects in C? This list will help you:
# | Project | Stars |
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1 | nnn | 19,984 |
2 | winfsp | 7,500 |
3 | littlefs | 5,520 |
4 | dokany | 5,497 |
5 | GlusterFS | 4,902 |
6 | rmlint | 2,072 |
7 | testdisk | 1,856 |
8 | MooseFS | 1,786 |
9 | minixfromscratch | 1,238 |
10 | bfs | 1,042 |
11 | winix | 945 |
12 | fsmon | 943 |
13 | exfat | 829 |
14 | squashfs-tools | 819 |
15 | httpdirfs | 805 |
16 | linux-apfs-rw | 609 |
17 | composefs | 520 |
18 | DreamShell | 475 |
19 | simplefs | 412 |
20 | fs | 371 |
21 | microshell | 299 |
22 | nullfsvfs | 296 |
23 | esp_littlefs | 286 |