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Dokany

Dokany is a fork of Dokan 0.6.0 with bug fixes, clean change history and updated to build with latest tools. It is similar to FUSE but works on Windows. It includes a FUSE wrapper that helps you to port your FUSE filesystems without changes.

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    2023-10-13

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  • I still like Sublime Text in 2025
    IMO remote mounts is a feature of the OS. For Windows, just use yasfw with dokany https://github.com/DDoSolitary/yasfw Or mount from inside WSL. For Linux and macOS, you can mount ssh directly. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • Projected File System
    It's not really the same though. A Projected File System copies the files from the backing store to somewhere on the local file system when requested and then performs IO normally on the local files. For an actual implementation of userspace filesystems on Windows see dokany: https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
  • 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 / over 3 years ago
  • Add USB connected phone as video source
    You'll need this ressource installed in 1.X version to make it work : https://github.com/dokan-dev/dokany. Source: over 3 years ago

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