Learning to Write Filesystems in Userspace with FUSE and Python
summary
A professor describes a hands-on educational project to build a FUSE filesystem in user space using Python, showing step-by-step implementation of filesystem programming topics for operating-systems students. The talk covers using the FUSE library to implement filesystems entirely in user space and invites attendees to follow and contribute to the ongoing project.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:02Teaching FUSE filesystems
- 13:26Project goals
- 17:21Basic FUSE demo
- 20:57Read-write support
- 22:45Pass-through demos
- 25:14Creative FUSE uses
- 27:04Python vs C for FUSE
- 28:49Q&A
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