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    KioFuse


    KioFuse allows you to mount remote directories into the root hierarchy of your local file system, thereby exposing KDE's advanced access capabilities (SSH, SAMBA/Windows, FTP, TAR/GZip/BZip2, WebDav, etc) to POSIX-compliant applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice, GNOME apps, shell utilities and more. Another important advantage of KioFuse is that it allows you to arrange the hierarchy of all your remote, archived and compressed files in whichever way makes sense to you.

    KioFuse works by acting as a bridge between KDE's KIO filesystem design and FUSE.

    Installation

    • Install kdelibs (version 4.0 or higher) provided by your Operating System or compile it according to these intructions.
    • Type the following commands into a terminal:

    svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/libs/kiofuse cd kiofuse cmake . make

    Running KioFuse

    • Mount with:

    kiofuse --mountpoint <mountpoint> --URL <URL>

    • Unmount with:

    fusermount -u <mountpoint>

    Real-world example:

    1. Create the mount point

    mkdir ~/fuse-source

    1. Download the compressed archive of the FUSE source code

    wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fuse/fuse-2.7.2.tar.gz -P ~

    1. Mount the archive in ~/fuse-source

    ./kiofuse --mountpoint ~/fuse-source --URL tar:~/fuse-2.7.2.tar.gz &

    1. Browse the source code in your favorite filemanager without ever needing to unpack the archive!

    dolphin ~/fuse-source & nautilus ~/fuse-source & thunar ~/fuse-source &

    Screenshots

    Features and TODO

    • Some KIO slaves such as tar: don't support seeking and therefore won't be able to read or write to files. Fixing these slaves is on the TODO list.
    • KIO needs to be modified so that it is aware of KioFuse mounts and so that it uses its native functions (as opposed to POSIX) to access those resources.

    POSIX Capabilities

    See the FUSE API for the list of all file I/O commands.

    Name Description Filename
    GetAttr Permissions, Owner, Group Done
    ReadLink Determine destination of link Done
    MkNod Create file Done
    MkDir Create a directory Not Started
    UnLink Remove a symlink Not Started
    RmDir Remove a directory Not Started
    SymLink Create a symlink Not Started
    Rename Rename a file or directory Not Started
    Link Create a hard link Not Started
    Chmod Change permissions of a file or directory Done
    Chown Change owner of a file or directory Work In Progress
    Truncate Change the size of a file Not Started
    Open Open a file for reading, writing, and/or truncating Done
    Read Read the contents of a file Done
    Write Write data to a file Done
    Truncate Change the size of a file Done
    StatFS Get Filesystem Statistics Not Started
    Flush Flush cached data Not Started
    Release Close an opened file Done
    FSync Synchronize file contents Not Started
    SetXAttr Set external attributes Not Started
    GetXAttr Get external attributes Not Started
    ListXAttr List external attributes Not Started
    RemoveXAttr Remove external attributes Not Started
    OpenDir Open a directory Not Started
    ReadDir List files and subdirectories Done
    ReleaseDir Release directory Not Started
    FSyncDir Synchronize directory contents Not Started
    Init Initialize filesystem Not Started
    Destroy Clean up filesystem Not Started
    Access Check file access permissions Work In Progress
    Create Create and open a file Not Started
    FTruncate Change the size of an open file Not Started
    FGetAttr Get attributes of an open file Not Started
    Lock Lock a resource Not Started
    UTimeNS Change the access and mod times in nanoseconds Not Started

    Source Code

    The source code to KioFuse can be browsed at: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/kiofuse/