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| 1488104 | 2022-08-28 06:35:00 | I’ve got a 64GB Flash Drive here made by a company called Strontium. It is getting on in years but has given faultless service. It has on it Windows and Linux files and they all operate fine. Somehow, curiosity got the better of me so I took a look at the Drives format only to find the Drives format is “FUSE” which I have never heard of. Google has very little about it so I wondered if anyone here can throw any light on the matter? :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1488105 | 2022-08-28 07:53:00 | I’ve got a 64GB Flash Drive here made by a company called Strontium. It is getting on in years but has given faultless service. It has on it Windows and Linux files and they all operate fine. Somehow, curiosity got the better of me so I took a look at the Drives format only to find the Drives format is “FUSE” which I have never heard of. Google has very little about it so I wondered if anyone here can throw any light on the matter? :confused: Google gave me this... FUSE is "Filesystem in USErspace". That's a way to implement a filesystem outside of the kernel in (you guessed it:-) user space. This is a bit slower than kernel-space filesystems, but the consequence of bugs in the driver are smaller. This is a good choice for a complex and under-documented/specified filesystem like NTFS. Nowadays there are supposedly full-featured kernel-based NTFS drivers as well. Which one gets used is the choice of your distribution-- which you can probably overrule with a bit of work if you really want that. I would not bother for a USB flash drive, as that is slow already, so the kernel-based implementation can not really play to its strength. from here: www.reddit.com |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1488106 | 2022-08-28 21:28:00 | Never heard of it, but looking it up, everything relates to a Linux System FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. FUSE also aims to provide a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount their own filesystem implementations. As a guess at some point the drive would have been attached to a linux system and somehow it got changed to that format with what ever you were doing at the time. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1488107 | 2022-08-28 22:22:00 | Thanks for the link and explanation bev121. As I understand it now, the Fuse Format is actually NTFS being read by Linux, in my case Linux Mint. Had something to do with copyright issues by Microsoft one article suggested. I’d like to be able to put the Flash Drive in a Windows machine to see if it showed up as NTFS, not FUSE, but there ain’t no Windows machines around here. :) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1488108 | 2022-08-29 01:29:00 | Never heard of it, but looking it up, everything relates to a Linux System As a guess at some point the drive would have been attached to a linux system and somehow it got changed to that format with what ever you were doing at the time. FUSE is not a format or a filesystem! It's just a method through which Linux accesses the drive... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1488109 | 2022-08-29 02:40:00 | FUSE is not a format or a filesystem! It's just a method through which Linux accesses the drive... Weird. :confused: 11376 |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1488110 | 2022-08-29 02:51:00 | Weird. :confused: 11376 That's a display bug in your file manager, or whatever program that is. The underlying filesystem will be something else, all that's telling you is that it's accessed through fuse. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1488111 | 2022-08-29 05:23:00 | FUSE is not a format or a filesystem! It's just a method through which Linux accesses the drive... As mentioned never heard of it before, so looked it up and this is what it describes. FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) is a simple interface for userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel BM's pictures shows the same named. So basically with Linux, someone says one thing, someone says another and both actually are wrong, but right at the same time - okkaayyyyyyy sounds about right. ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1488112 | 2022-08-29 06:16:00 | So you're telling me that if you mount an image of a regular DVD movie, the DVD filesystem changes from UDF to something else? No, it doesn't. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1488113 | 2022-08-29 20:25:00 | Further to my total confusion on this matter I thought I’d check a couple of other thumb drives, to see if FUSE got involved, so I settled for a couple of 32GB. Here is what I got. 11377 11378 Both filesystems are MSDOS and I thought 32GB was too big for MSDOS which is why they went to FAT32 and NTFS? The other thing is most of the files on all three thumb drives were created on a Windows computer but my Linux Mint seems able to work with them no problem. Got me licked! :confused: |
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