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Dokan logo Dokan

User mode file system library for windows with FUSE Wrapper

WinFsp logo WinFsp

WinFsp, Windows File System Proxy, is a set of software components for Windows computers that...
  • Dokan Landing page
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    2021-07-31
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    2021-10-08

Dokan videos

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Dokan - Multivendor e-commerce solution for WordPress and WooCommerce

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  • Review - Dokan top Modules
  • Review - Create a Multi-Vendor eCommerce Marketplace Website with WooCommerce, Dokan Plugin & Marketo theme

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Dokan and WinFsp)

Dokan

WinFsp

Cloud Storage
46 46%
Cloud Storage
54% 54
CD Image Creator
100 100%
CD Image Creator
0% 0
FTP Client
0 0%
FTP Client
100% 100
Storage
100 100%
Storage
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Dokan should be more popular than WinFsp. It has been mentiond 2 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Dokan mentions (2)

  • Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about low level disk/file IO?
    I lead a project that included shipping a filesystem driver and a virtual disk on Windows. What I did to learn the lower-level APIs, and perform initial testing on the driver, was write a "mirror" drive. The user-mode code pointed to a folder on disk, the driver made a virtual disk drive, and all reads and writes in the virtual disk drive went to the mirror folder. On Windows, you can implement something like that... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
  • Software to organize files by multiple categories?
    I've day dreamed about having a tag based file system where a file path (URI) in which each segment is a tag. So path /image/red is the same as /red/image. File extensions would be part of the tags too. Been a while since I looked at my notes, but I think I originally was thinking of searching /red would show all files that have that tag ranked. File system base is nice because then the custom system works for... Source: almost 3 years ago

WinFsp mentions (1)

  • EAC Exact Audio Copy Crashes upon accessing Windows filesystem - related to Dokany, Cryptomator, .Net, and WinFSP
    When WinFSP (often installed for Rclone) is installed opening any filesystem dialog from EAC will immediately crash the program (#162). To fix the issue either uninstall WinFSP or run fix162.bat. Source: about 1 year ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Dokan and WinFsp, you can also consider the following products

OSXFUSE - FUSE for OS X allows you to extend OS X's native file handling capabilities via third-party...

WinSCP - WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows.

Ceph - Ceph is a distributed object store and file system designed to provide excellent performance...

sshfs - This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol.

Linux File Systems for Windows - Plug hard disk with ExtFS/Btrfs/XFS partitions and work with media on Windows.

Cyberduck - A libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure & OpenStack Swift browser.

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