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Top 13 C fuse-filesystem Projects
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Project mention: S3 scales to petabytes a second on top of slow HDDs | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-24
Doing some light googling aside from Ceph being listed, there's one called Gluster as well. Hypes itself as "using common off-the-shelf hardware you can create large, distributed storage solutions for media streaming, data analysis, and other data- and bandwidth-intensive tasks."
It's open source / free to boot. I have no direct experience with it myself however.
https://www.gluster.org/
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MooseFS
MooseFS Distributed Storage – Open Source, Petabyte, Fault-Tolerant, Highly Performing, Scalable Network Distributed File System / Software-Defined Storage
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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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I'm playing with a tape drive for backups, so I asked a local model to rewrite LTFS ( https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs ) in Go.
I gave it the reference C implementation, the LTFS spec from SNIA, and asked it to use the C implementation to verify the correctness of the Go code.
LTFS is a pretty straightforward spec, so it made a very reasonable port within about 2 days. It's now working on implementing the iSCSI initiator (client) to speak with my tape drive directly, without involving the kernel.
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CGrpFS
Tiny implementation of the GNU/Linux CGroupFS (sans resource controllers) as a PUFFS or FUSE filesystem for BSD platforms
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C fuse-filesystem discussion
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A while ago I asked how to best avoid grabbing rar'd torrents - now I'm back with an app that automates just that!
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NORDiCHD | HD
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Mount virtual http[s] iso command for progressive adaptive random access download with optional resumable download going to storage?
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Ask HN: What does everyone use for encrypting their personal stuff?
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How to browse a http archive from terminal?
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In Windows, you can use Winrar to extract split rar files and delete them as you go if you don't have enough disk space. Is there a program that lets you do this in Linux without wine?
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Use HTTP Remote with single file link
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Index
What are some of the best open-source fuse-filesystem projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GlusterFS | 5,204 |
| 2 | MooseFS | 1,986 |
| 3 | lxcfs | 1,186 |
| 4 | ifuse | 998 |
| 5 | httpdirfs | 881 |
| 6 | x11fs | 350 |
| 7 | ltfs | 335 |
| 8 | rar2fs | 305 |
| 9 | unreliablefs | 186 |
| 10 | hfsfuse | 103 |
| 11 | rvault | 39 |
| 12 | execfuse | 37 |
| 13 | CGrpFS | 15 |
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