01.25.06

FUSE is the future, a small HOWTO to FUSE on Ubuntu

Posted in Unix / Linux at 1:38 pm by skoobi

Yes, FUSE is the future !!

I personnally think that it does NOT make sense to implement every protocol known to earth inside kernel-space, just to be able to mount remote folders. Implementing stuff in kernel-space implies complexity, and bloat.

Added to that, why would you reinvent the wheel ? If libProtocol already exists, it is somewhat stupid to re-implement it, just for the sake of having something in kernel-space..

That’s why FUSE has been invented. This post describes how to mount, for example, a ssh directory using FUSE.

So now, let’s imagine some great stuff with FUSE… The current /var/log totally sucks. Text files are handy for the system administrator, because he can use his usual UNIX guru commands (grep, awk, perl, whatever). However, they are NOT handy at all for system utilities that have to parse all the different formats of logs, in order to output logs, etc (Awstats, for example does that, for Apache logs).

So, we would live in a better world if, for example, all logs were output’ed to a Database, and we had a virtual /var/log, that reflected the database, just so that people can use grep and perl on it… Not only this would allow stats tools to be more efficient, but we would keep the current compatibility…

Anyways…

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