From what I understand, fuse is the lower layer of filesystems such as captive ntfs and shfs. Captive ntfs uses the win32 drivers for ntfs via user space to allow you to write to an ntfs partition. Shfs is one of a few remote via ssh file systems.

-Eric -----Original Message----- From: ken jones <kjones@ziplink.net> Subj: [Wlug] FUSE?? Date: Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:03 pm Size: 907 bytes To: WLUG Mailing list <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Would somebody please explain to me what exactly FUSE does? I succeeded in using fusexmp to mount my root directory into /tmp/fuse2.5.3/example. I also succeeded in unmounting with fusermount -u. I do not understand why I should want to. This all started when I upgraded the kernel and the type ntfs file system on the other half of my dual mounted system refused to "mount". I got distracted into FUSE then remembered to install the matching kernel-module-ntfs below. Now I am again successfully using 'smbmount' to mount ntfs file types. I am running Fedora 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 with kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4-2.1.27-0.rr.10.4.i686.rpm What good is FUSE to me? I've Googled till the cows come home, but I do not understand the responses. Ken Jones _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug