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by billziss 10y ago
I am the author of WinFsp and I believe you are missing the point or you did not actually read the article. Early on I say that: << This performance testing shows that WinFsp has excellent performance in all tested scenarios. It outpe
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WinFsp – FUSE for Windows – faster Than Dokany(github.com)
35 points by billziss 10y ago|25 comments
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by billziss 10y ago
Ok, after this Pull Request is merged into Cygfuse, anyone will be able to compile MP3FS on Cygwin. https://github.com/mgeisert/cygfuse/pull/2
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by billziss 10y ago
Maxhy, I understand that you are annoyed. Please recall that: 1. The only Dokany thread that I have explicitly mentioned WinFsp is this one (and only after someone else mentioned it). I avoided doing so on your Reddit thread, for example. Y
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by billziss 10y ago
Maxhy, thank you for the very valuable input.
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by billziss 10y ago
I understand this sentiment. I am a Mac guy myself (and have been for over 10 years). OTOH, here is how I got involved with this. I was developing a file system on OSX that I then ported to Linux. When I looked to port it to Windows I did n
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by billziss 10y ago
Thanks for the honest feedback. > 1. the license I am pretty convinced that this is a major issue. I am looking for a solution that would allow unrestricted open source use while restricting closed source use. For example, freely combine
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by billziss 10y ago
Just for kicks I just ported mp3fs to Cygwin using WinFsp and Cygfuse. It is getting to dinner time and I have to be with the family, but I will post more on this in a day or two.
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by billziss 10y ago
> I'm wondering how tricky it'd be to create a C# FS implementation that supported both Dokany and WinFsp from the same codebase. That's actually a cool idea. The API's are not dissimilar as both API's were desig
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by billziss 10y ago
There is indeed a high bar of entry, although this is not necessarily true for the user mode components. BTW, please consider contributing to WinFsp :) You do not have to contribute to the core project if you find the license unpalatable or
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by billziss 10y ago
That is indeed a problem. Although developers can get by using testsigning and turning off secure boot. That is what I do for development, between releases.
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by billziss 10y ago
That is a very good insight and one that I agree with. BTW, I am not really trying to make WinFsp into a product. I simply created it because I am a file system writer myself and wanted a stable FSD for Windows. I was originally planning to
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by billziss 10y ago
If that is the only impediment, I will switch to GPL tomorrow. I suspect that there is more than that. I suspect that people no longer like the GPL. I am actually one of those people. My intent with WinFsp is to allow any open source proj
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by billziss 10y ago
I fail to understand this. Are you saying that the GPL is not an open source license?
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by billziss 10y ago
Which license do you think would be acceptable for someone like you to contribute?
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by billziss 10y ago
Simple: I quit. Yes, I did have savings. Yes, I was single at the time. I recognize that it would not have been possible otherwise.
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by billziss 10y ago
It comes and goes. Years ago I (semi-)retired from the corporate world for similar reasons and because I thought I would have more fun working on projects related to my hobbies. Turns out that even that got old eventually. Then a couple of
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Ask HN: How to get contributions to open source project
6 points by billziss 10y ago|23 comments
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by billziss 10y ago
The difference is that SSHFS-Win is a port of SSHFS to Cygwin and not written in C#. [Nothing against C# BTW. I used it for years while employed at MSFT.]
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by billziss 10y ago
I am not sure what that means. Dokan calls IoRegisterFileSystem on disk file systems, but does not appear to do so on network file systems. FsRtlRegisterUncProvider is the pre-Vista MUP and does not do it for you. WinFsp has multiple integr
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by billziss 10y ago
Not as of yet. But you can use the Windows Credential Manager to store your passwords.
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by billziss 10y ago
Consider my SSHFS-Win port which allows you to map a new network drive from Explorer using syntax like: \\sshfs\username@server https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win Download binaries from here: http://ww
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by billziss 10y ago
I am the author of WinFsp. Thanks for mentioning it. WinFsp properly supports the filter manager, which means that AV filters should work without problems.
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by billziss 10y ago
WinFsp does have a FUSE API. It implements the FUSE 2.8 (high-level) API. This is in addition to its native API. I also have a FUSE package submission to Cygwin. It needs votes :) https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/
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by billziss 10y ago
Some good points here. I admit that I do not fully understand all consequences of licensing this under the AGPL vs the GPL (and I mean social rather than legal). On the question of why AGPL/GPL and not a more free license like BSD: whe
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by billziss 10y ago
I am late to the party as I just found out about this discussion. I am the author of WinFsp. You can ask me specific questions if you want. Bill Zissimopoulos
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FUSE for Windows/Cygwin now available(secfs.net)
47 points by billziss 10y ago|6 comments
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SSHFS Port to Windows/Cygwin(secfs.net)
2 points by billziss 10y ago|1 comments
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WinFsp: write user mode file systems for Windows(secfs.net)
1 points by billziss 10y ago|0 comments