Filesystems

Filesystems HOWTO is about filesystems and accessing filesystems from several OSes. This HOWTO is a document that describes a wide variety of filesystems and instructs you on how to access them from a wide variety of operating systems.. Platforms: *nix

Ext2 Filesystem Utilities project (e2fsprogs) contain all of the standard utilities for creating, fixing, configuring , and debugging ext2 filesystems.. Platforms: *nix

ngacl project is an effort to give Linux and its filesystems a full blown ACL system, similar to that used by NFSv4 and Windows. With this software, you have 13 different access rights, dynamic inheritance, and audit ACLs. The implementation is filesystem-independent because the kernel parts... Platforms: *nix

vlsf is a plugin for the LUFS package which allows to write large files (4GB and more) on primitive filesystems like FAT32. The workaround is simple: the file is stored in small files (chunks) on the real filesystem using the same method and naming scheme as the split utility. Installing To... Platforms: *nix

ext2hide allows the user to save and restore an arbitrary number of files to and from the reserved space in an ext2/3 filesystems primary and backup superblocks. Using ext2hide, you can use this reserved section to store an arbitrary number of files, where they will be completely invisible to... Platforms: *nix

MapFS implements a Linux filesystem which utilizes copy-on-write functionality and existing Linux filesystems to allow component filesystems (or portions thereof) to be combined into a single virtual filesystem that appears to be fully writable. It is written in C, uses the standard Linux... Platforms: *nix

Shfs is a simple and easy to use Linux kernel module which allows you to mount remote filesystems using a plain shell (ssh) connection. When using shfs, you can access all remote files just like the local ones, only the access is governed through the transport security of ssh.. Platforms: *nix

PTXdist is a build system ("executable documentation") for compiling root filesystems for embedded systems. PTXdist is based on a KConfig configuration system in combination with a set of rules which describe how all the source packages out there have to be tweaked to be compiled into a proper... Platforms: *nix

E2fsprogs (Ext2 Filesystem Utilities) contain all of the standard utilities for creating, fixing, configuring , and debugging ext2 filesystems.. Platforms: *nix

Bindings for libcdio: a library for CD-ROM, CD image access and ISO-9660 filesystems. Example programs to list tracks, issue CD audio commands, and extract a file from an ISO-9660 track or image is included. See also http://www.gnu.org/libcdio Platforms: Ruby

The TclVfs project aims to provide an extension to the Tcl language which allows Virtual Filesystems to be built using Tcl scripts only. It is also a repository of such Tcl-implemented filesystems (metakit, zip, ftp, tar, http, webdav, namespace, url) Platforms: Mac

A python package that provides access to the Linux virtual filesystems proc, sys, and configfs. Platforms: *nix

CDBKUP is a professional-grade open-source package for backing up filesystems onto CD-Rs or CD-RWs. Features * Supports full or incremental backups. * Results are stored as GNU tarballs on ISO 9660 filesystems. * Excellent support for multi-session CDs. * Large backups can be split... Platforms: *nix

KExtInfo is used to display filesystem parameters on ext2/ext3 filesystems. This application is actually a read-only frontend for tune2fs which is part of the e2fsprogs package that is available at: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net Platforms: *nix

Kouvert is a graphical fstab editor with complete options lists for all filesystems supported by Linux and other Unix-like systems. Platforms: *nix

Clash is a tool for making bootable Compact Flash/Mini ISO systems.It includes scripts for preparing the image, some essential networking root filesystems, tools to help you build your own root filesystem, and documentation describing the steps involved. Platforms: C and C plus plus

ferrisfuse is a FUSE module for mounting libferris filesystems through the Linux kernel. About libferris In non technical terms libferris makes the file system and other hierarchical storage systems easier to use. For the geeks out there, libferris is a virtual file system (VFS) that runs in... Platforms: *nix

FindFile will be a collection of tools for recovering files from filesystems with corrupted directories/allocationtables/etc. This can be usefull when the partitiontable (or more) of a harddisk is corrupted. Or when you have a memory-card of a digital camera which is corrupted. For now only a... Platforms: *nix

MetaFS is a daemon for Linux (and Linux only) that allows you to access information about your files (such as MP3 tags or JPEGs EXIF tags) easily and consistently using extended attributes. MetaFS project also allows you to perform fast searches using this information. MetaFS is extensible, so... Platforms: *nix

Here is the description you can find at Freshmeat: Gujin is a PC boot loader which can analyze your partitions and filesystems. It finds the Linux kernel images available, as well as other bootable partitions (for *BSD, MS-DOS, Windows, etc.), files (*.kgz) and bootable disk images (*.bdi), and... Platforms: *nix