Filesystem in Userspace

Filesystem in Userspace
Stable release
3.16.2[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 10 October 2023; 12 months ago (10 October 2023)
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemUnix, Unix-like
TypeFile system driver
LicenseGPL for Linux kernel part, LGPL for Libfuse, Simplified BSD on FreeBSD, ISC license on OpenBSD; proprietary for macOS
Websitegithub.com/libfuse/libfuse

Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE) is a software interface for Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems that lets non-privileged users create their own file systems without editing kernel code. This is achieved by running file system code in user space while the FUSE module provides only a bridge to the actual kernel interfaces.

FUSE is available for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD (as puffs), OpenSolaris, Minix 3, macOS,[2] and Windows.[3]

FUSE is free software originally released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and the GNU Lesser General Public License.

  1. ^ "Release 3.16.2". 10 October 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Home - FUSE for OS X".
  3. ^ Zissimopoulos, Bill (2021-02-14), billziss-gh/winfsp, retrieved 2021-02-16