rfuse -- ruby - FUSE interface

WARNINGS:

Beware, this is beta software (to be honest these are my first steps in C) and is minimally tested. So don't blame me if your filesystem gets corrupted.

LICENSE:

see COPYING in /docs.

GENERAL:

This is a Ruby interface to FUSE. FUSE (Filessystem in USErspace) is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesaystem to the linux kernel. FUSE aims to provide a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem implementations.

DEPENDENCIES:

ruby 1.8 fuse 2.3

USAGE:

Create a class by extending/deriving from RFuse::Fuse. Implement the operations you need. Every operation is passed a context and the parameters you know from fuse.h. You should look into the /example directory.

LIMITATIONS:

Currently the signalhandler is just called if a ruby callback is run. So you'll have to do something like killall /usr/bin/ruby; ls /myfilesystem to shut down the filesystem.

Due to ruby's lack of native threading the multithreading loop_mt is disabled.

TODO:

• find some Makefile/Autoconf GURU
• improve error handling
• better docs
• more examples
• multithreading won't work until RIKE is out (the implementation of ruby 2.0 with true native thread support)
• correct signal handling (possibly with RIKE)

Have fun!

Peter

Maintainer: mailto: peter.schrammel AT gmx.de jabber: popel AT jabber.ccc.de

Project homepage: http://rfuse.rubyforge.org