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11286 :: About a VFS library

[2024-03-23T11:33:35+01:00]

grd (orginal) [2024-03-23T11:33:35+01:00] view original

Hi, about VFS (Virtual File System), what is a good VFS library that I can use? I could not find any, but I didn't look that well ;-)

There exists a Go library that can use client side SMB for a VFS. I don't think that there is a equivalent for Nim.

Grt, Gerard

PMunch (orginal) [2024-03-24T23:13:44+01:00] view original

On Linux at least you can use libfuse. I assume there are similar solutions for the other OSes which you can wrap in a similar way. Maybe if you find all of them it'd be a good idea to create a convenient wrapper over virtual filesystem.

scippie (orginal) [2024-03-25T01:07:46+01:00] view original

If you don't specifically need a real VFS, you can always create an SQLite database with a simple table containing a filename and a blob containing the data. If you need more things like creation/modification date/time, you can add those columns too. You can even add a deleted column/flag if you want to be able to undelete files. And... it is cross platform.